Word of the Day: fabricate

The word fabricate has appeared in 30 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Dec. 13 in “Chatbot Hype or Harm? Teens Push to Broaden A.I. Literacy” by Natasha Singer:

It was difficult late last year for many teenagers to know what to make of the new wave of A.I. chatbots.

Teachers were warning students not to use bots like ChatGPT, which can fabricate human-sounding essays, to cheat on their schoolwork. Some tech billionaires were promoting advances in A.I. as powerful forces that were sure to remake society. Other tech titans saw the same systems as powerful threats poised to destroy humanity.

School districts didn’t help much. Many reactively banned the bots, at least initially, rather than develop more measured approaches to introducing students to artificial intelligence.

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