Artificial Intelligence is The Future of Plagiarism, University Professor Warns

A professor at university has warned his administration and other universities throughout the country about this. AI chatbots They are the future of plagiarism

In a Facebook post Furman University philosophy professor was interviewed earlier this month Darren Hick Hick recounted his first encounter with a student trying to cheat an assignment using an artificial intelligence chat program. Hick caught the student because the AI’s work was shoddy and lacked any substance of the course material. Hick stated that this would not be always the case. universities We need to find ways to stop using software to complete assignments.

“Today, I turned in the first plagiarist I’ve caught using A.I. software to write her work, and I thought some people might be curious about the details,” Hick posted on Facebook. ChatGPT, an AI chat platform that allows users to create prompts and scripts. The software then generates human-like replies. The prompt the student was given, and that she gave to the software, was to write 500 words about the English philosopher David Hume’s paradox of horror.

“ChatGPT responds in seconds with a response that looks like it was written by a human—moreover, a human with a good sense of grammar and an understanding of how essays should be structured,” Hick wrote. “In my case, the first indicator that I was dealing with A.I. is that, despite the syntactic coherence of the essay, it made no sense. The essay confidently and thoroughly described Hume’s views on the paradox of horror in a way that was thoroughly wrong. It did say some true things about Hume, and it knew what the paradox of horror was, but it was just bulls***ing after that. To someone who didn’t know what Hume would say about the paradox, it was perfectly readable — even compelling. To someone familiar with the material, it raised any number of flags.”

Prof. Davidson concluded that plagiarism of this nature would be easily detected in advanced philosophy courses, especially if the material is not well-known. The software can be detected in lower-level courses or in other disciplines such as literature and political science. “game-changer.”

Fortunately, Hick knew about software that could detect the chatbot software, and ran a check of the student’s essay; the software found a near-certainty that the essay was fake. In experimenting with ChatGPT himself, Hick noticed some of the AI’s tendencies in composition that could help point out future chatbot-produced essays, but he noted that because the software is based on a neural network that is always learning, it will get better and harder to detect.

“Administrations are going to have to develop standards for dealing with these kinds of cases, and they’re going to have to do it FAST,” Hick concluded. “In my case, the student admitted to using ChatGPT, but if she hadn’t, I can’t say whether all of this would have been enough evidence. This is too new. But it’s going to catch on. It would have taken my student about 5 minutes to write this essay using ChatGPT. Expect a flood, people, not a trickle.”

Hick stated that, until his university has a protocol in place to prevent AI plagiarism, he will try to counter it by giving an impromptu oral examination to any student who may have used similar software.

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