As more students realize that ChatGPT can write five-paragraph essays as good as—if not significantly better than—what they’re capable of, teachers are scrambling for tools that can detect whether they’re grading the writing of a young human or a young robot.

Several cheating-detection tools have sprung up in the few months since ChatGPT, a conversational language model from OpenAI, arrived on the scene. The most-talked about one is GPTZero, which was developed by, of all people…a student.

Over winter break, 22-year-old Princeton student Edward Tian created an app that determines the likelihood that a piece of text was written by a human or by ChatGPT. While it probably didn’t make him the most popular dude on campus, the app has gotten more than 7 million views as of last week.

Apps like GPTZero are becoming increasingly sought after as older cheating detection tools become obsolete in the ChatGPT era.

Remember Turnitin?

Many of us who’ve been tasked with explaining the green light at the end of The Great Gatsby have had to submit those essays to Turnitin.com to make sure we didn’t copy it from Wikipedia. That was effective…before ChatGPT. But what makes ChatGPT different is that it theoretically creates an original response of text every time you query it. That’s not what Turnitin is designed for: It cross-checks your work against an existing database of writing.

Turnitin, of course, is on the case: It says it’s currently testing a tool that can detect AI-generated text, and plans to open it up to the public later this year.

But as good as these apps get, ChatGPT and its fellow language models will also evolve—and some education experts say teachers will have to also rely on the oldest tool in the book to mitigate cheating: their noggin. Teachers will need to understand the differences (which do exist) between AI and human writing. They’ll also likely need to overhaul their teaching process to minimize cheating opportunities—for instance, by setting clear expectations with students about the role of ChatGPT in classrooms, or by tweaking their assignments to reward skills ChatGPT hasn’t mastered…

Yet.

Dozens killed in Nepal plane crash. At least 68 people were killed when a Yeti Airlines flight crashed while attempting to land in the resort town of Pokhara on Sunday. A total of 72 people were on board the aircraft, a twin-engine ATR 72, including 15 foreign nationals. It’s Nepal’s worst plane disaster in 30 years, but plane crashes are not uncommon in this country of towering mountains, treacherous flying conditions, and weak (but improving) safety standards: Since 1946, Nepal has experienced 42 fatal airplane crashes.

A Ukrainian residential building was destroyed. In the deadliest civilian attack on Ukraine in months, a Russian missile strike on a nine-story apartment block killed 30 people in the city of Dnipro on Saturday. The Ukrainian military said the missile was a supersonic Kh-22 “aircraft carrier killer” that it does not currently have the ability to intercept. As Russia ramps up its attacks after a two-week breather, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky urged Western allies to supply more weapons. Britain recently announced it would send over 14 of its primary battle tanks.

Biden classified docs update: The political chatter around classified documents ramped up over the weekend after the White House said it found five more pages of classified documents at President Biden’s home in Wilmington, DE, on top of the previously disclosed two batches of classified docs. Republicans who’ve just assumed power in the House are asking for visitor logs of Biden’s home, while Democrats say they’re waiting on the findings of the recently appointed special counsel before drawing conclusions.

On Friday, Boston city officials unveiled the latest monument to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.—a $10 million bronze sculpture depicting the moment MLK embraced his wife, Coretta Scott King, after Dr. King learned he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. It is called The Embrace.

The completion of the 22-foot-tall statue was highly anticipated: Five years in the works, it is the largest monument to racial equity in the country, and it’s located in the Boston Common, the oldest public park in the US.

Why Boston? That was where MLK met Coretta: He was a doctoral student at BU while she was studying at the New England Conservatory of Music. Boston Common was also the final destination of a 20,000-person-strong voting rights march Dr. King led from Roxbury in 1955.

But The Embrace hasn’t exactly been embraced from a critical POV. The design of the statue, which shows four arms intertwined, was bashed online for not depicting the couple in full and for generally giving off weird vibes. Corretta Scott King’s cousin, Seneca Scott, wrote in the online journal Compact, “Ten million dollars were wasted to create a masturbatory metal homage to my legendary family members.”

The artist’s vision: Brooklyn-based sculptor Hank Willis Thomas told the Boston Globe, “This work is really about the capacity for each of us to be enveloped in love.”

Musk on trial over infamous tweet. Remember when Elon Musk tweeted in 2018 that he was considering taking Tesla private at $420/share and had “funding secured”? It could come back to bite him. Jury selection begins tomorrow in a trial over that tweet, which a class-action lawsuit claims resulted in Tesla investors losing billions of dollars.

Earnings season heats up. After big banks warned of a mild recession on Friday, more major companies will drop their Q4 reports this week, including Goldman Sachs, Netflix, United, and P&G.

The Year of the Rabbit. Lunar New Year, and its different variations across many Asian countries, is on Sunday. More than a quarter of the world’s population will celebrate the arrival of the Year of the Rabbit.

Everything else…

• The World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, kicks off today (here’s what you need to know).
• The Australian Open also begins today in Melbourne. After all the drama surrounding unvaxed Novak Djokovic’s unsuccessful bid to play last year, he’s Down Under again and receiving a warm welcome.
• The Sundance Film Festival begins on Thursday in Park City, UT.

Stat: Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence has never lost on a Saturday in high school, college, or the NFL, per Fox Sports. Lawrence came awful close to snapping the streak during the NFL’s Super Wild Card Weekend, but the Jags pulled off an epic comeback to defeat the LA Chargers after being 27 points down. The Jaguars, 49ers, Bills, Giants, and Bengals all advanced to the divisional round. The final wild-card game, between the Buccaneers and the Cowboys, is tonight.

Quote: “I Still Know What You Did Last Supper”

Twitter user Aidan James (and many others) floated potential titles for a sequel to The Passion of the Christ after a report said that the film, which has been in development for a few years, could start shooting this spring—with Jim Caviezel returning to play Jesus and Mel Gibson again in the director’s chair. The OG Passion of the Christ was released in 2004.

Read: You don’t know how bad the pizza box is. (The Atlantic)

Dive back into the week.

• Shallow dive: Guys being dudes
• Medium dive: Find that meme
• Deep dive: The happiest jobs in America
• Cannonball: Helpful (and entertaining) ChatGPT prompts

Fictitious dishes: Photos of the most famous meals in literature.

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