RE: ChatGPT vs. University Professors -- Not a Fair Fight (Not Even Close)

Yes, some things ChatGPT is able to summarize quite well.

However, in other areas, it provides complete inaccuracies with absolute 'confidence'.

For example, when I asked it to give a summary of a book chapter I am requiring my students to read, it could not even get the title of the chapter correct, much less the summary of its contents.

Also, it 'confidently' gives completely erroneous quotes (i.e. it simply invents 'quotes' that are not contained in the source document, complete with fictitious page numbers -- I've even had it cite page numbers that do not exist in the source document).