ChatGPT and Its Genre Competence: An Exploratory Study

Being able to reciprocate and produce different kinds of texts is a key quality and a core professional competence. Therefore, genre competence is funda-mental in not only educational and academic contexts but also professional environments. This paper addresses the extent to which text-generating AI tools could support the development of genre competence and how suitable they are as a tool for genre-based writing didactics. To answer this, it is nec-essary to examine whether AI tools, such as ChatGPT, are competent in terms of text genres. To do this, the re-search explores whether ChatGPT is capable of producing and revising genre-specific texts or identifying and analyzing genre-specific patterns and whether it produces different outputs in terms of genre. To examine these questions, we have conducted a pilot study that includes several different text types and several areas of application (gener-ating, revising, summarizing, classifying, and analyzing). The paper’s results relate to three aspects of “Education in the Digital World”: a) competencies, b) possible changes to educational and learning processes using AI tools, and c) appropriate tools for education in general.