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Kasneci and colleagues survey opportunities and challenges created by large language models in education shortly after ChatGPT’s public release. Potential uses include explanations, examples, dialogue, feedback, language support, writing assistance, assessment development, programming help, and teacher preparation of materials.
These systems may broaden access and personalise interaction, but fluent output is not reliable evidence of truth or understanding. Models can fabricate information, reproduce bias, expose private data, obscure sources, enable plagiarism, and encourage overreliance or reduced human judgement. Effects differ by learner knowledge: novices may be least able to detect plausible errors. The authors discuss implications for students, teachers, researchers, and institutions and argue for AI literacy, verification, transparent policies, redesigned assessment, and human oversight. LLMs should augment rather than replace educators or the social purposes of learning.
The article is a multidisciplinary position and review, not an evaluation demonstrating learning gains from ChatGPT. Its durable contribution is a balanced agenda: explore pedagogically grounded uses while studying accuracy, equity, privacy, agency, assessment validity, and the competencies needed to question and responsibly use generated content.
Lee and Moore systematically review ten peer-reviewed empirical studies published from 2019 through 2023 that used generative AI for automated feedback in higher education. Systems operated across several instructional contexts and purposes, producing written guidance, conversational responses, cognitive support, emotional encouragement, and feedback linked to assessment or learning activity.
Reported possibilities include faster and more personalised responses, greater accessibility, lower anxiety when seeking help, and reduced instructor effort on routine feedback, potentially freeing time for complex teaching. The small and heterogeneous evidence base limits strong conclusions, however. Tools, disciplines, outcomes, and study designs varied, and rapid technological change means many systems predate current large language models. Generated feedback can be inaccurate, generic, biased, difficult to explain, or misaligned with learning goals. Students may overtrust it, and automation can weaken dialogue or instructor awareness.
The authors therefore frame GenAI as augmentation rather than replacement. Effective implementation requires instructors to design criteria and prompts, monitor quality, teach feedback literacy, preserve human interaction, and study how learners interpret, verify, and act on advice over time.
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