ChatGPT: Intellect and Writing Being Threatened

Written by Compassion Chidozie

Whenever a new technology is launched, the question that tops the conversation is which profession(s) or job(s) will be erased or replaced by the latest technology. This has set humanity in a panic. General Motors’s EV1 was the first electric car of the 1990s but The Tesla Roadstar changed the dynamics of electric vehicles. In the first five days of its launch, ChatGPT reached one million users, so impressive and entertaining. This is the most sophisticated and popular version of the GPT-5 base with 175 billion parameters because it was channeled effectively, with the potential to increase. Google poms are 500 billion parameters.

ChatGPT is the new internet toy and the most impressive work of Artificial Intelligence technology that can instantly create answers, corporate emails, poems, stories, TV scripts, and essays, meaning that writing borne out of critical thinking may come with a new taste. I called the innovation of CHatGPT the “Leap Forward.” One of the most interesting things about this “leap forward” is that certain brains tend to dominate the conversation.

ChatGPT has been programmed to respond to questions and tasks, arguably, better and clearer than any human being at any given time. It is difficult to detect a work from ChatGPT if it is not coming from a human. It delivers a ‘perfect’ job based on the user’s command. ChatGPT escapes tentative dictations in terms of plagiarism. The unleashing of ChatGPT has altered the academic world and created a paradigm shift, and I hope it is not the evolution of offering academic limbo.

As magnificent as it was, what could this new technology mean for the way we write and communicate? For students, ChatGPT performs their school tasks, writes their essays, thinks critically for students, and communicates effectively, through the search engine. For institutions like universities, it is the agency that plunges plagiarism detection which university institutions must learn how to deal with. What is the future of academics in this stance? Are writing skills going to die as this new technology poses huge risks to the survival of the potential Shakespeare, Chinue Achebe, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Wole Soyinka, Agatha Christie, Barbara Cartland, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, and Danielle Steel?

The introduction of new AI technology in the automobile industry caused a “change” in the way human activities are carried out. The world has gradually adapted to the innovation of self-driving vehicles which has reduced and heavily affected the jobs of taxi drivers in some Western countries. Another is the Suda Writing. According to Wikipedia, “the Suda Write Program is one of the GPT software which is somewhere between a grammatical dictionary and an encyclopedia in the modern sense. It explains the source, derivation, and meaning of words according to the philology of its period. It is the articles of literary history that are valuable. These entries supply details and quotations from authors whose works are otherwise lost” (https://simple.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suda).

Africa, with low internet usage, may be missing from the conversation. All of these technology ribs will favor people with access to it and people who can manipulate data. There are many creative possibilities behind this as writers use ChatGPT to write idealized stories, co-author fiction, and poems, produce manuscripts, etc. With this new artificial intelligence, it has become apparent that intellect and writing have been threatened. Will the humanist accept this challenge? ChatGPT is creating a “language in the box” that will replace the way human beings approach writing, and institutions of learning (universities) must learn how to adapt to it.