![On Oct. 30, 24 Eco Club members took a tour of the school’s solar panels on the roof. They were guided and taught by an employee from E Light Electric, the company that maintains the school’s solar panels, and learned about how the panels are maintained and cared for. “I was definitely very excited about being on the roof in general,” Eco Club member Olivia Fang ‘26 said. “[It was exciting to] learn more about solar panels and how they work and how they supply energy to our school.”](https://rockmediaonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/RCH_2632-1200x800.jpg)
![Ice and snow make it difficult for drivers on the road. During snowstorms, drivers have poor visibility, and frozen roads make it difficult to stay in control. “Driving home from Denver [on Friday], the neighborhoods weren’t plowed. By the time we got back they were only plowing highways. We spun out, nearly got stuck and fishtailed a few different times,” Connor Pugh ‘26 said.](https://rockmediaonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Untitled_Artwork-e1732045465987.jpg)
![Varsity girls soccer midfielder Leah Sheahan ‘24 hugs a friend during the Senior Night celebrations before the home game against Mountain Vista High School (MVHS) at Echo Park Stadium April 29. During Senior Night, seniors were given flowers and the opportunity to walk out and take pictures with their family as their future plans and favorite memories were announced over the speakers. The Jags tied 0-0, losing the Continental League Championship. “We were obviously the stronger team but just couldn’t find a way to score, but otherwise our connection and our intensity was really high so I’m proud of that. We just have to find the net,” defense midfielder Clara Geuzaine ‘24 said. “[Losing League] wasn’t the best. It’s better than last year and like, I know our team and we are doing really good. I don’t want to jinx it but like hopefully [we’ll do] good [in playoffs].”](https://rockmediaonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Copy-of-DSC_4277-1-1200x868.jpg)
![In room 4101, Natalie Patterson ‘26, Ariana Magor ‘25 and Celina Salazar ‘25 create a poster in science teacher Kerry Reilly’s Chemistry Honors April 18. The three completed a worksheet and drawing to explain the implosion of a tank for their unit on gas laws. “At the start of class, we watched a video of the tank imploding,” Patterson said. “I think [making a drawing] is something new. I like more artsy activities.”](https://rockmediaonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/IMG_5019-1200x900.jpeg)
Is It Plagiarism? Inside ChatGTP’s Impact on Education
How ChatGTP and other forms of AI will influence the future of education.
media by Danny Curran
A graphic depicts the educational impacts of Artificial Intelligence (AI).
March 23, 2023
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a very easy tool for students to take advantage of. Why write a five-paragraph essay for English class when AI can do it in under a minute?
Multiple services have popped up that can be used for a fee or for free. The most popular one so far is currently ChatGPT. Made by OpenAI and averaging over 20 million users in a month, ChatGPT has been used by thousands of students across the nation, according to US News. Schools around the nation have called it out saying that it is plagiarism and that students will receive the same consequences of plagiarism if caught using AI.
This brings up the question: is using AI really plagiarism? The entire concept of plagiarism is copying somebody else’s work and claiming that it is your own work, but AI is not viewed as “someone.” OpenAI does not claim the work that is produced.
In order to try to address this problem, ChatGTP detectors have been developed. The first is GPTZero, made by Edward Tian, a current student at Princeton University, according to US News. Tian made GPTZero for educators for teachers to check if students’ text is written by an AI or if it was written by a real person.
There is also a different side to this new wave of AI. Some schools don’t view this as plagiarism and have ideas for working with ChatGTP. Instead of making students writers, we can make them editors. There have been some teachers who have said that we could benefit from this and teach and learn with the ChatGPT program, which could even help improve students’ literacy rate.
OpenAI is also known for creating Dall-E, an image generation program. The user gives it a prompt, and in about five minutes it generates an image, which can be regenerated to get the desired result. The image can be generated in the style of a stock photo, in a hand-drawn way or made to look like digital or 3D art.
However, this may potentially be problematic for a variety of art classes. Instead of spending hours drawing something complex, just wait five minutes, and if it’s not picture-perfect the first time, then just regenerate again.
“The database that the AI learns [from] is entirely composed of imagery that is not [owned by the] creators of the AI. None of the artists that created the artwork that the AI bases its generated images [on] voluntarily [gave their art] to the creators of the AI for the purpose of training,” Jackson Hitchler ’23 said
According to Oxford Languages, plagiarism is the practice of taking someone else’s work or ideas and passing them off as one’s own. AI is not someone, not a person, not a human, not an animal. AI is a program created by humans. If those humans do not claim ownership of any of the work that is produced, then would it belong to you, to the public, or to nobody?