OpenAI wants teachers and profs to foist their work off on ChatGPT

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New plugins for K-12 teachers, university instructors, and college kids? Read the room, guys

In the face of an epidemic of AI-enabled cheating and research suggesting its products hamper learning, OpenAI is doing the sensible thing and pushing more AI on students and teachers.

Wait, did I say sensible? My mistake.

The House of Altman announced a trio of new education-focused offerings on Tuesday: one for K-12 teachers, another for college educators, and a third for college students. The new plugins, the company explained, will help students and educators make more use of ChatGPT’s agentic capabilities for both studying and teaching. The new features are available through ChatGPT Edu, an institutionally licensed suite for higher education, and ChatGPT for Teachers, a free resource available to verified US K–12 educators and school districts.

The new offerings, says OpenAI, build on its educational AI philosophy that “AI should support...

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