New Delhi: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has put a ban on the use of Artificial Intelligence-based ChatGPT besides the Mobile and other electronic items in the upcoming class 10, 12 board exams, officials said on Tuesday. According to the board officials, the use of ChatGPT will amount to using unfair means in the exams.
The Class 10 and Class 12 exams start from Wednesday, February 15 and will go on till April 5 this year, stated an official release from CBSE. Around 38, 83,710 students will appear in these examinations. CBSE has circulated detailed guidelines to all the stakeholders to ensure that the students are appearing in the examinations without any stress.
“Mobile, ChatGPT and other electronic items will not be allowed in the examination hall,” according to instructions issued by the board ahead of the papers.
The admit card for the exams also has a cautionary instruction that says, “You should not indulge in any unfair practice. If found, you will be booked under Unfair Means (UFM) Activity and action will be taken as per the rules of the board.”
“Students are not allowed to carry any electronic devices inside the exam centre. This includes using devices to access ChatGPT so that unfair means are not used,” a senior board official said.
ChatGPT (Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer), which was launched in November 2022, is capable of generating speeches, songs, marketing copy, news articles and student essays or human-like text based on the input it is given.
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