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Australian universities split on using new tool to detect AI plagiarism

Turnitin claims its device is 98% accurate but some institutions are concerned about not having enough time to make a decision

The Guardian - AU

‘It’s called stealing’: new allegations of plagiarism against Roy Lichtenstein

Pop art founder made millions, but the comic book artists he copied struggled financially

The Guardian - UK

"It's been divisive": How Greater Manchester's universities are combatting students using AI to cheat

A new feature promises to tackle AI plagiarism head-on - but Greater Manchester unis are unconvinced

Manchester Evening News

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TechRadar

Why is big tech racing to partner with Nvidia for AI?

Nvidia has announced a series of big tech partnerships this week, including collaborations with AWS and Adobe to provide cloud infrastructure and hardware for training proprietary AI models. AWS will work with Nvidia to build scalable infrastructure with the express purpose of training large language models (LLMs) for use in…

IT Pro

Google Bard just admitted it plagiarizes content — and that’s a problem

Google Bard is certainly smart but since it gets its information from actual news sites, it also needs to start citing its sources or plagiarism accusations will keep piling up.

Tom’s Guide

GPT-4 shouldn’t worry anybody – we just need to be better

Text generators have been around for years, but they’ve finally gotten good. Where previous iterations required a heavy edit, the latest version of ChatGPT from OpenAI writes with better grammar than I – sorry, me. But both chatbots and generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools like the newly launched GPT-4 also…

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Examination of USC doctor’s earlier books finds more troubling instances of plagiarism

LOS ANGELES — With just days to go before the publication of his already-bestselling title, “The Book of Animal Secrets,” Dr. David Agus said he was surprised to learn that at least 95 passages appeared to be copied from other uncredited sources, sometimes word for word.

Los Angeles Times

Futurists predict a point where humans and machines become one. But will we see it coming?

Most people are familiar with the deluge of artificial intelligence (AI) apps that seem designed to make us more efficient and creative. We’ve got apps that take text prompts and generate art, and the controversial ChatGPT, which raises serious questions about originality, misinformation and plagiarism.

The Conversation

Sales of USC scientist's new book suspended after 95 instances of plagiarism found

LOS ANGELES — The publication of a new book by Dr. David Agus, the media-friendly University of Southern California oncologist who leads the Lawrence J. Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine, was shaping up to be a high-profile event.

Los Angeles Times

Which London universities ban ChatGPT and AI chatbots?

Will students get expelled from university for using chatbots like ChatGPT in their essays?

Evening Standard

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

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

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.

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Los Angeles Times

Michael Hiltzik: Publishers and media watchdogs are struggling with an onslaught of AI-written content

After 17 years as the publisher of short science fiction and fantasy stories at Clarkesworld, the online and print magazine he founded in 2006, Neil Clarke had become adept at winnowing out the occasional plagiarism case from the hundreds of submissions he receives every month.

Radio France Internationale

French university bans ChatGPT as educators debate use of AI text generators

French university Sciences Po is one of the first higher education institutions to ban the use of the artificial intelligence text generator ChatGPT to complete assignments, in order to prevent fraud and plagiarism. The company that created ChatGPT said it has released software that educators can use to detect AI-generated…

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Editorial: ChatGPT has a lot of teachers worried about plagiarism. The fears are overblown

A lot of well-deserved concern is spreading across academia over students’ use of ChatGPT to write their class essays and do their homework. The OpenAI.com program is so sophisticated that it can compose original material that consistently fools experts — and teachers — into believing it was written by a…

Salon

Human artists vs. AI systems

AI systems can now produce human-sounding written language and convert descriptive phrases into realistic images

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Reason

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

Retraction Watch prevails in a California appellate case.

Reuters

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

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.

The Conversation

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…

WEKU

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.

Reason

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

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