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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Anna Fazackerley

AI makes plagiarism harder to detect, argue academics – in paper written by chatbot

Bristol University
Bristol University is among the institutions to have issued new guidance on how to detect the use of ChatGPT. Photograph: Adrian Sherratt/Alamy

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.

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