By: Nicole Troy

While the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT has caused disruption and concern in many educational and professional settings across the nation, one Cal Poly English professor said the program is only as good as its user — at least for now.

“I’ve been experimenting with making ChatGPT produce what I would consider to be college-level writing — the kind of prose a highly capable first-year Cal Poly student might compose — and what immediately became apparent to me is that the quality of ChatGPT’s output is only as good as the prompts you feed it,” said Jason Peters, associate professor of English and coordinator of the