Students use ChatGPT for far more than cheating

Mark Lomas, 17, was feeling stuck — and sliding toward a deadline.

He had less than a week to file a story for the Akins High School newspaper about the growing popularity of artificial-intelligence tools, but he couldn’t think of a way to begin. Everyone at his Texas school had been talking about ChatGPT for weeks. Could he find something new to say?

Then Lomas had an idea. “Why not,” he said to his friend and co-writer Roberto Ramirez, “ask ChatGPT?”

Ramirez told him that would be “really ironic.” But both teens agreed to give it a try.

“Write a 200 word News…