Top French university bans use of ChatGPT to prevent plagiarism

FILE PHOTO Institute of Political Studies IEP or quotSciences Poquot main entrance at the Institute in Paris France May 28 2013. Picture taken May 28 2013. REUTERSCharles PlatiauFile Photo

FILE PHOTO: Institute of Political Studies (IEP) or "Sciences Po" main entrance at the Institute in Paris, France, May 28, 2013. Picture taken May 28, 2013. REUTERS/Charles Platiau/File Photo

PARIS (Reuters) - Sciences Po, one of France's top universities, has banned the use of ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence-based chatbot that can generate coherent prose, to prevent fraud and plagiarism.

ChatGPT is a free programme that generates original text about virtually any subject in response to a prompt, including articles, essays, jokes and even poetry, raising concerns across industries about plagiarism.

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