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Seeing ChatGPT Through Students' Eyes: An Analysis of TikTok Data

arXiv 2303.05349 ↗First posted 9 Mar 2023stat.AP cs.CL cs.CYcited by 7

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Abstract (arXiv)

Advanced large language models like ChatGPT have gained considerable attention recently, including among students. However, while the debate on ChatGPT in academia is making waves, more understanding is needed among lecturers and teachers on how students use and perceive ChatGPT. To address this gap, we analyzed the content on ChatGPT available on TikTok in February 2023. TikTok is a rapidly growing social media platform popular among individuals under 30. Specifically, we analyzed the content of the 100 most popular videos in English tagged with #chatgpt, which collectively garnered over 250 million views. Most of the videos we studied promoted the use of ChatGPT for tasks like writing essays or code. In addition, many videos discussed AI detectors, with a focus on how other tools can help to transform ChatGPT output to fool these detectors. This also mirrors the discussion among educators on how to treat ChatGPT as lecturers and teachers in teaching and grading. What is, however, missing from the analyzed clips on TikTok are videos that discuss ChatGPT producing content that is nonsensical or unfaithful to the training data.

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  1. 2023ChatGPT or Human? Detect and Explain. Explaining Decisions of Machine Learning Model for Detecting Short ChatGPT-generated Textcited by 84
  2. 2023Will ChatGPT get you caught? Rethinking of Plagiarism Detectioncited by 41
  3. 2023ChatGPT and Software Testing Education: Promises & Perilscited by 40
  4. 2022"I think this is the most disruptive technology": Exploring Sentiments of ChatGPT Early Adopters using Twitter Datacited by 32

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  1. 2023Can ChatGPT Reproduce Human-Generated Labels? A Study of Social Computing Taskscited by 88
  2. 2023ChatLog: Carefully Evaluating the Evolution of ChatGPT Across Timecited by 12
  3. 2025On the Impossibility of Separating Intelligence from Judgment: The Computational Intractability of Filtering for AI Alignmentcited by 12
  4. 2023The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Evolution of Digital Education: A Comparative Study of OpenAI Text Generation Tools including ChatGPT, Bing Chat, Bard, and Erniecited by 5
  5. 2023System-Level Natural Language Feedbackcited by 4
  6. 2023Deconstructing Student Perceptions of Generative AI (GenAI) through an Expectancy Value Theory (EVT)-based Instrumentcited by 3
  7. 2023ChatGPT or academic scientist? Distinguishing authorship with over 99% accuracy using off-the-shelf machine learning toolscited by 0