This paper presents our system developed for SemEval-2025 Task 6: PromiseEval: Multinational, Multilingual, Multi-Industry Promise Verification. The task aims at identifying “promises” made and “evidence” provided in company ESG statements for various languages. Our team participated in Subtasks 1 and 2 for the languages English, French, and Japanese. In this work, we propose using BERT and finetuning it to better address the task. We achieve competitive results, especially for English and Japanese.

With the introduction of ChatGPT on November 30, 2022, the online sphere was disrupted seemingly overnight, with its ability to generate human-like text and comprehensively answer questions. It has even been lauded as being able to aid in the editing and generation of code. Some schools and online question-and-answer forums, however, have banned its use. In this paper, we use Reddit data to examine the impact that the banning of the AI tool has had online. Our findings indicate that reactions have ranged from skepticism that the ban will work, loss of educational opportunity, to agreement that ChatGPT is not 100 percent accurate in its answers. We postulate that while it may be better to ban it from Question-and-Answer forums, in physical classrooms, while ChatGPT may hinder students from finding their own solutions to problems, it also provides the opportunity for students to critically view answers provided to them by the chatbot, strengthening their digital literacy and critical thinking skills.