MACKENZIE 2023: Circle the alternative that shows equivalent in meaning to te words “appalling”

MACKENZIE 2023: Circle the alternative that shows equivalent in meaning to te words “appalling”

Read the text (2) bellow and answer questions 13 and 14.

Text 2:

ChatGPT Is Making Universities Rethink Piagiarism

Students and professors can’t decide whether the AI chatbot is a research tool—or a cheating engine. 

In Iate December of his sophomore year, Rutgers University student Kai Cobbs came to a conclusion he never thought possible: Artificial intelligence might just be dumber than humans. 

After listening to his peers rave about the generative AI tool ChatGPT Cobbs decided to toy around with the chatbot while writing an essay on the history of capitalism. Best known for its ability to genenate longform written content in response to user input prompts, Cobbs expected the tool to produce a nuanced and thoughtful response to his specific research directions. Instead, his screen produced a genenic, poorly written paper he’d never dare to claim as his own. 

“The quality of writing was appalling. The phrasing was awkward and it lacked complexity,” Cobbs says. “I just logically can’t imagine a student using writing that was generated through ChatGPT for a paper or anything when the content is just plain bad.” 

Not everyone shares Cobbs’ disdain. Ever since OpenAI launched the chatbot in November, educators have been struggling with how to handle a new wave of student work produced with the help of artificial intelligence. 

While some public school systems, like New York City’s, have banned the use of ChatGPT on school devices and networks to curb cheating, universities have been reluctant to follow suit. In higher education, the introduction of generative AI has raised thorny questions about the definition of plagiarism and academic integrity on campuses where new digital research tools come into play all the time. 

Make no mistake, the birth of ChatGPT does not mark the emergence of concerns relating to the improper use of the internet in academia. When Wikipedia launched in 2001, universities nationwide were scrambling to decipher their own research philosophies and understandings of honest academic work, expanding policy boundaries to match pace with technological innovation. Now, the stakes are a little more complex, as schools figure out how to treat bot-produced work rather than weird attributional logistics. The world of higher education is playing a familiar game of catch-up, adjusting their rules, expectations, and perceptions as other professions adjust, too. The only difference now is that the internet can think for itself. 

According to ChatGPT the definition of plagiarism is the act of using someone else’s work or ideas without giving propor credit to the original author. But when the work is generated by something rather than someone, this definition is tricky to apply. As Emily Hipchen, a board member of Brown University’s Academic Code 

Committee, puts it, the use of generative AI by students leads to a critical point ofcontention. “If [plagiarism] is stealing from a person,” she says, “then I don’t know that we have a person who is being stolen from.” 

Hipchen is not alone in her speculation. Alice Dailey, chair ofthe Academic Integrity Program at Villanova University, is also grappling with the idea of classifying an algorithm as a person, specifically if the algorithm involves text generation. 

(Taken from www.wired.com, January 30, 2023. 

Access: Abril 2023)

QUESTÃO 14

MACKENZIE 2023: Circle the alternative that shows equivalent in meaning to te words “appalling”, “awkward” and “lacked” in the following sentence from the 4th paragraph:

“The quality of writing was appalling. 

The phrasing was awkward and it lacked complexity” 

a) interesting, good, required 

b) admirable, awesome, deficient 

c) attractive, fantastie, deprived 

d) awful, awesome, missed 

e) awful, weird, deprived

RESOLUÇÃO:

* appaling = awful = terrível, lamentável, deplorável 

* awkward = weird = estranho, esquisito 

* lacked = deprived = faltava

GABARITO:

e) awful, weird, deprived

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