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ChatGPT: Gen Z’s lifestyle subsidy, or its biggest rival?

ChatGPT: Gen Z’s lifestyle subsidy, or its biggest rival?

University students are getting free trials of AI services like ChatGPT and using them heavily – but then discover how AI is taking away their opportunities once they have graduated.

AI applications are changing the way students navigate university, and threatening job prospects after graduation. Michaela Pollock

A little-used punctuation mark usually reserved for grammar nerds has taken over Australia’s universities and it’s not because students, tutors and professors have suddenly discovered a love for complex sentence structures.

An em-dash is a long line that breaks a sentence and can be used in the place of a colon. It’s also one of the many tell-tale quirks suggesting text has been generated by a large language model such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT.

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Amelia McGuireBusiness reporterAmelia McGuire covers technology from the AFR's Sydney newsroom. She was previously the aviation, tourism and gambling reporter for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. Connect with Amelia on Twitter. Email Amelia at a.mcguire@afr.com.au

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