Can you write a Master’s Thesis with ChatGPT?

Victor Tan
5 min readFeb 13, 2023

Since the very dawn of time, students have sought new and creative ways to pass their exams that uh, do not include just studying.

People have hidden scraps of paper inside their pens, written down answers on their forearms, transcribed ancient Chinese texts onto underwear…

“pls stop” — every teacher throughout history

Even now, there is a disturbing number of articles on WikiHow about cheating, namely 10 Ways To Cheat on a Test Using Body Parts and even 3 Ways to Cheat on a Test Using Pens or Pencils… (WikiHow, why do you have so many of these????)

…And the list goes on!

Now, it’s no secret that it’s very possible to cheat with ChatGPT and that this has thrown educators worldwide for a loop, but then I received a rather funny question earlier on the Artificial Intelligence Megathread I started on LowYat Forums.

Well.

Could you potentially write a Masters thesis with ChatGPT?

It so happened that someone on the ChatGPT Malaysia Facebook group had asked me the exact same thing, so I decided to step up to the plate.

Here’s what I asked:

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Victor Tan

Enjoys talking to smart people x Perpetually passionate about education in an age of AI and modern technology; Malaysia native, occasionally found elsewhere.