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Artificial Intelligence: ChatGPT and Beyond: AI: Plagiarism

Is the use of AI plagiarism?

When might the use of AI tools constitute plagiarism?  If you put in a prompt for an AI tool and turn in the results as your own, isn't that the same as presenting someone else's work as your own?  Isn't that plagiarism?   What about learning to use AI?  Is that a valid  reason to use AI to assist with a course assignment?  It depends!  Check with your instructor before using AI !   Also, if you use AI, be sure that you are willing to be accountable for the results!   Check AI results for accuracy!   See below for some views on plagiarism and AI and some examples of classroom policies: 

CCCC (Conference on College Composition & Communication).  MLA-CCCC Joint Task Force on Writing and AI

Ditch That Textbook. How to define "cheating" and "plagiarism" with AI. 

Eaton, Lance.  Classroom policies for AI generative tools 

Moxley, J.  M.  Plagiarism - Reimagining Authorship & Citation Practices in the Age of AI.  Writingcommons.org

Scribbr. (2023).  University policies on AI writing tools: Overview and list.  

 

Tools to Catch AI Plagiarism

 

Open AI writes "Can I ask ChatGPT if it wrong something?" The  short answer is "no!" 

Temple University. Center for the Advancement of Teaching. A Faculty Guide to A.I.  Points out that AI detector tools are fallible. Suggests some ways to incorporate AI into a course making AI "an object of critical inquiry."

 

Bailey, Jonathan. (2023, July 27).  The current state of detecting AI writing.  PlagiarismToday.  https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2023/07/27/the-current-state-of-detecting-ai-writing/  "There is functionally no reliable detection of AI works, and there’s no clear solution on the horizon."

 

Turnitin announces AI writing detector and AI writing resource center for educatorsFebruary 13, 2023  Turnitin promises 97 percent accuracy with less than 1/100 false positive rate.  

Turnitin's accuracy detecting use of AI has been questioned.  Example: 

Quach, K. (2023, September 23).  Colleges snub Turnitin's AI-writing detector over fears it'll wrongly accuse students.  The Register.

 

Plagiarism and Cheating Instances

Can you outwit AI plagiarism detectors?

AI Advantage. (2023, January 8).   How to get around ChatGPT detectors.  YouTube.  [On use of ChatGPT and plagiarism detection. Can you ask an AI to rephrase generated text?  Yes.   Can you ask an AI to write in your own voice by submitting some of your own writing?  Yes.  Can you fool some of the current plagiarism detectors? Yes.  Will you be able to count on that in the future? No!] [Igor Pogany]

Gewitz, D. (2023, January 13).  Can AI detectors save us from ChatGPT?  I tried 3 online tools to find out.  ZDNET.

Nolan, B. (2023, January 14, 2023 Two professors who say they caught students cheating on essays with ChatGPT explain why AI plagiarism can be hard to prove.  Business Insider.

 

For instructors

Phillip Dawson (@phillipdawson) on Twitter has some reminders to instructors about using plagiarism tools: 
Did the student give permission to upload their work?  
What are the legal, ethical obligations around student data and privacy?  Does the assignment include student names or sensitive information? 
Will student data be stored?  Can you or students ask that the data be deleted?  
What is the data about accuracy of the tool?  What if the results are not trustworthy? 
Do false positives cluster around certain demographics? 
From https://twitter.com/phillipdawson/status/1615474118345859082 
January 17, 2023

 

Cotton, Debby R. E., Cotton, Peter A., & Shipway, J. Reuben.  (2023, March 13).  Chatting and cheating: Ensuring academic integrity in the era of ChatGPT.  Innovations in Education and Teaching International. An article written in part with Chat-GPT.  Is that cheating?  

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