Plagiarism & ChatGPT: Is Cheating with AI the New Normal?

[scottdave]

Have you used GPT-4 yet? It seems that in the future, educational institutions must have programs like Turnitin to detect generative AI.

Turnitin now has the ability to detect AI-written content. I don't know if it is standard or optional.

 

[cbance]

The following is an excerpt from https://reason.com/volokh/2022/12/28/plagiarism-and-chatgpt
It talks about exams. Other profs talk about its use with homework.
ChatGBT answers are not identical to other things posted on the Internet. Normal plagiarism detection will not work.

If you haven't tried it yourself, it's worth a try. Be aware that after the initial answer, you can criticize it, or give more detailed requirements and it will produce improved answers. @Greg Bernhardt even tried feeding it some broken HTML code, and the AI found the bugs and gave back improved correct code.

https://chat.openai.com/chat
You'll have to create a free account.

Is this something to worry about? What is the defense?

I would like to leave some of my own input and feedback on this one. - Well, it depends on how you look at it and how it's being used. Once example that really gets up my nose is Essay writing services that use ChatGPT to provide paid Essay writing which is basically cheating on education. Not to mention it produces really poor output and out of date information.

 

[WWGD]

Henry Ford II failed to graduate from Yale. Tucked inside his senior thesis was the bill from the guy who wrote it.

Ted Kennedy got caught having some other guy take a test for him. Was expelled from Harvard, wound up at Dartmouth.

Dartmouth: For when you get caught cheating at Harvard.

 

[WWGD]

Actually, there's a contest, award included, to detect cheating through using GPT.

 

[jack action]

When I was an undergrad, there was a teacher who gave us the example of a student who was so lazy at copying someone else's homework that they only bothered to put correction fluid over the original author's name and write their own over it. These people apparently still exist with AI:

 

[Hornbein]

I can do basic math in my head. I feel this gives me advantage over people who rely on calculators. I can often sense when something has gone wrong with numbers.

 

[gmax137]

I can often sense when something has gone wrong with numbers.

Me too. Decades in nuclear power, "verifying" calcs done by others. First pass: does this even make sense? Second pass: are the inputs correct? Third pass: check the arithmetic line-by-line. Goal: do pass three one time only.

 

[Hornbein]

Me too. Decades in nuclear power, "verifying" calcs done by others. First pass: does this even make sense? Second pass: are the inputs correct? Third pass: check the arithmetic line-by-line. Goal: do pass three one time only.

Sometimes I am shocked by basic math errors in the New York Times, The Economist, and even from the World Bank. I suspect that the great majority of Congressmen are innumerate.

 

[Vanadium 50]

People don't cancel their subscriptions to the NYT because the math is wrong. People do cancel their subscriptions to the NYT because they "platform" a senator they don't agree with on their Op-Ed pages. Which do you think the editors will focus on more?

 

[gmax137]

"Editors" are the ones that are charged with correcting the reporter's grammar. They should also catch stupid mistakes. Or at least, assign fact checkers.

If I see/hear/read a news story with grammar or arithmetic errors, I have to question "what else did they get wrong?"