Looking yesterday at some student application forms, we were bemused by the phraseology and grammatical constructions of one or two of the ‘personal statements’. These were from candidates who were (supposedly) native English speakers, applying for a subject at a top university in which clear and effective use of English will be a key skill.
For a moment, I wondered whether they had got ChatGPT or some other system to write it for them. And then I realised…
No, it couldn’t be from ChatGPT, because ChatGPT would have done a much better job.
I think this is significant.
It’s like the time several years ago when I realised I had just bought a second, electronic, copy of a big, bulky paper book that I already owned, because the Kindle reading experience would be vastly superior to the paper one: something I never would have imagined a few years before.
It’s a tipping point…
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