KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDE AND USE OF CHATGPT SERVICES AMONG UNDERGRADUATES OF UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA, NSUKKA
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The coming of the innovative ChatGPT has the potential to stale the process of student’s capacity to be original in their work and think critically to birth innovative ideas. Therefore, this study seeks to examine the knowledge, attitude and use of chat Generator Pre-trained Transformer (ChatGPT) among undergraduates of University of Nigeria, Nsukka. This study is anchored on the uses and gratification theory, using survey as the research design and questionnaire as the instrument. The population for this study is 35,130, the total number of students for 2023/2024 academic session, according to the Academic Planning Unit, UNN. The Australian online calculator was used to choose the sample size of 380 respondents. Data was analyzed using descriptive statistics with the aid of SPSS. Result shows that knowledge of ChatGPT among students is below the acceptable threshold of the mean value, while the level of attitude and use is high. The study recommends that UNN students should be properly guided on the use and benefits of ChatGPT in research and other academic activities. The school management and lecturers should educate them on how to ethically apply this innovation in their study.
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