The Latest Breaking News from Plagiarism

New Ed Sheeran album, Subtract, informed by ‘fear, depression and anxiety’

Wife’s illness, plagiarism court case and death of music entrepreneur friend Jamal Edwards all came to bear on Sheeran’s sixth studio album, made with the National’s Aaron Dessner

The Guardian - UK · Mar 1, 2023

Writing is a 'questionable business', but what to make of John Hughes, one of the most prolific plagiarists in literary history?

In June of last year, the Guardian revealed that John Hughes’ Miles Franklin-longlisted novel The Dogs contained material lifted from The Unwomanly Face of War, a book by Nobel Prize-winning Belarusian journalist Svetlana Alexievich. When approached about this, Hughes apologised for the transgression, describing the plagiarism as unintentional.

The Conversation · Mar 1, 2023

ChatGPT and cheating: 5 ways to change how students are graded

Universities and schools have entered a new phase in how they need to address academic integrity as our society navigates a second era of digital technologies, which include publicly available generative artificial intelligence (AI) like ChatGPT. Such platforms allow students to generate novel text for written assignments.

The Conversation · Feb 27, 2023

Correspondence About UC Irvine Professor's Alleged Plagiarism Is Public Record, Subject to Disclosure

Retraction Watch prevails in a California appellate case.

Reason · Jan 14, 2023

Mexico president blames Supreme Court plagiarism debacle on political scheming

Mexico's president said Thursday that plagiarism allegations plaguing one of Mexico's top judges were born out of political scheming by his opponents, a day after the judge's alma mater said she copied "a substantial part" of her thesis.

Reuters · Jan 12, 2023

Mexico Supreme Court judge copied 'substantial part' of thesis, university says

One of Mexico's top judges copied "a substantial part of content" for her 1987 thesis from another student's work presented a year earlier, her university said on Wednesday, following a plagiarism scandal made public last month.

Reuters · Jan 12, 2023

AI and the future of work: 5 experts on what ChatGPT, DALL-E and other AI tools mean for artists and knowledge workers

From steam power and electricity to computers and the internet, technological advancements have always disrupted labor markets, pushing out some jobs while creating others. Artificial intelligence remains something of a misnomer – the smartest computer systems still don’t actually know anything – but the technology has reached an inflection point…

The Conversation · Jan 11, 2023

A college student created an app that can tell whether AI wrote an essay

Some students have been using ChatGPT, a text-based bot, to do their homework for them. Now, 22-year-old Edward Tian's new app is attracting educators working to combat AI plagiarism.

WEKU · Jan 9, 2023

A Guest Post on Plagiarism and ChatGPT

As a professor and someone who values academic integrity, I am always concerned about the issue of plagiarism. Plagiarism is the act of using someone else's work or ideas as your own, without proper attribution or citation. It is a serious offense in the academic world, as it undermines the…

Reason · Dec 30, 2022

Plagiarism and ChatGPT

Get ready to interrogate students about their AI-enabled answers.

Reason · Dec 28, 2022