Something strange was happening at Jeff Hancock’s work.
It was 2022, just after OpenAI’s release of ChatGPT to the masses, and the Stanford professor noticed something was off in the research assignments he was grading. “They looked pretty good, but not quite right,” Hancock tells CNBC Make It. “And then because I had 100 students, I could see that 10 other assignments looked exactly the same with the same sort of not-quite-rightness.”
The papers in question seemed to have a lot of text without saying anything substantive to “advance the work,” and they all did so in the same overly wordy style.
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