If using ChatGPT is cheating, what about ghostwriting? The old debate behind a new panic

Has our culture’s begrudging acceptance of ghostwriting paved the way for everyone – not just the rich and famous – to offload the hard work of writing?

By: Emily Hodgson Anderson, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, The Conversation

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Published: March 25, 2026

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By Emily Hodgson Anderson, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

In February 2023, a little more than a year after the launch of ChatGPT, Vanderbilt University sent an email to its student body in the wake of a fatal campus shooting at Michigan State.

“The recent Michigan shootings are a tragic reminder of the importance of taking care of each other,” the email read in part. In tiny type at the bottom of …

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