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Rodrigo Trevino looks over the coding for his app (Blake McCarty/SBG San Antonio)

SAN ANTONIO - Artificial intelligence platforms are rolling out left and right. You can put in a prompt or question and immediately get a detailed response.

Like most teachers, Joe Golembiewski at Northside ISD's NSITE Campus was worried students would use the technology to cheat.

"It turns out that I haven't had a big problem with that,"Golembiewski said. "I should knock on wood."

His students are learning coding and programming, but platforms like Chat GPT can help with almost every subject.

It was launched last November and uses a language-based model to scour for answers before presenting them to you in neat paragraphs.

Chat GPT site (Screengrab from OpenAI)

Students tell us they immediately knew it could present problems.

"There's definitely going to be a surge of students using it to not only aid them in their work, but completely do it for them," said Rodrigo Trevino, one of Golembiewski's students.

But Trevino went a different route with the technology.

"I tested it out as soon as as soon as I could," he said.

Trevino had already coded an app that helps determine your grade point average. He wondered what would happen if he asked Chat GPT to do the same. After inputting his prompt, he compared the two.

"It didn't go as far as you would expect it to, it just did the bare minimum that it needed," Trevino said. "I think mine was better, personally, because mine contained more features."

Golembiewski says that's how he'd prefer his students use Chat GPT and other AI, with schools integrating it into the learning rather than banning it.

"Tools can be used for good, tools can be used for bad... we've got to figure out, flesh out, the best ways to use the tool,"Golembiewski explained.

Author and education advocate Thomas Fellows agrees.

"We're gonna be able to use Chat GPT in the workforce, so we might as well prepare our students for the workforce, rather than just preparing them for tests and so forth," Fellows said.

Golembiewski says teachers are actually using AI to determine if students are using it too.

"And it'll not 100% always detect it, but it gives a pretty good estimation of whether or not the student did the work,"Golembiewski said.

Some districts tell us the language in their student handbooks is already inclusive enough to cover artificial intelligence when it comes to cheating.

Its use in the classroom is still largely up for debate.

LONDON, ENGLAND - AUGUST 03: A finger is posed next to the Snapchat app logo on an iPad on August 3, 2016 in London, England. (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images)

Snapchat recently launched their own AI feature, calling it an "experimental, friendly, chatbot."

"My AI can answer a burning trivia question, offer advice on the perfect gift for your BFFs birthday, help plan a hiking trip for a long weekend, or suggest what to make for dinner. My AI is there to help and to connect you more deeply to the people and things you care about most," says the Snapchat support page.

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Some teachers are embracing artificial intelligence as more platforms roll out - WOAI