Chatbot websites have been used thousands of times by Scottish university students amid cheating concerns, figures have suggested.
Since May, Glasgow University has recorded 150,647 connections from their campus buildings and wi-fi networks to ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence platform which can produce essays.
Robert Gordon University, in Aberdeen, said they were logging an average of 2,434 visits a month to the same site, while Abertay University in Dundee revealed they had recorded 19,101 hits over the early summer months.
Lindsay Paterson, an education policy expert, warned that writing essays and dissertations may no longer be an appropriate way to assess student performance because of the technology.
The data was revealed in response to a freedom of information request.
