Good morning everyone! In class, we’ve frequently discussed the potential uses of ChatGPT in academia and reasoned that it is not reliable enough to write complex papers at a high academic level. This is why I wanted to bring this article to everyone’s attention.
Synopsis: “An academic paper entitled Chatting and Cheating: Ensuring Academic Integrity in the Era of ChatGPT was published this month in an education journal, describing how artificial intelligence (AI) tools “raise a number of challenges and concerns, particularly in relation to academic honesty and plagiarism”. What readers – and indeed the peer reviewers who cleared it for publication – did not know was that the paper itself had been written by the controversial AI chatbot ChatGPT.“
The article discusses how ChatGPT threatens to make “essay mills” (i.e., papers for purchase) an even greater plague on academia, and how ChatGPT-4 (a newer version of the AI software) can make future papers even more “human-like”. The author does state that referencing remains to be a weakness of ChatGPT, so if anyone wants to avoid accusations of plagiarism, be sure to double-check your footnotes!