Students analyzing ChatGPT-generated endings were somewhat more likely than peer-text readers to believe the ending could be Orwell's original¶

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q2 i? On Q11, 33% of the experimental group versus 22% of the control group said they would have believed the alternate ending was Orwell's original if not told its source. → Andrea Roxana Bellot 2025

Evidence¶

Andrea Roxana Bellot 2025¶

Andrea Roxana Bellot, Mar Gutiérrez-Colón Plana, Katarzyna Agnieszka Baran. (2025). Redefining Literature Education: The Role of ChatGPT in Undergraduate Courses. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40593-025-00497-3

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Questionnaire item Q11 asked whether students would have believed the alternate ending was Orwell's original without knowing its source. Descriptive percentages from Table 2: experimental 33.33% yes vs control 22.73% yes; skepticism was more pronounced in the control group (36.36% no vs 28.57%).

"a higher proportion of students within the experimental group (33%) perceive the alternate ending as potentially being authored by Orwell (Q11), compared to those in the control group (22%)."

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