Revealed: How easy it is to create high-quality Leaving Cert projects using AI

Guidelines published this week state that students must reference when AI has been used to generate material, in the same way a book, newspaper, magazine or online source would be referenced. File photo

The Irish Examiner was able to use easily accessible, free artificial intelligence (AI) tools to generate realistic but completely fictional, high-quality Leaving Cert research projects online within 30 seconds.

It comes as guidelines released this week around new Leaving Cert projects, set to be worth 40% of a student’s overall marks in a subject, allow for the use of AI.