Academic type content produce by ChatGPT is relatively formulaic and would be pick up by many existing AI-detection tools, despite being more sophisticate than those produce by previous innovations, as per the new study.
The findings should serve as a wake-up call to university staff to think about ways to explain to students and minimise academic dishonesty, researchers from Plymouth Marjon University and the University of Plymouth, UK, said.
ChatGPT, a Large Language Machine (LLM) said as having the potential to revolutionise research and education, has also prompt concerns across the education sector about academic honesty and plagiarism.
To address some of these, this study encourage ChatGPT to produce content written in an academic style through a series of prompts and questions.
As per Study Some of these included :
“Write an original academic paper, with references, describing the implications of GPT-3 for assessment in higher education”
“How can academics prevent students plagiarising using GPT-3”
“Produce several witty and intelligent titles for an academic research paper on the challenges universities face in ChatGPT and plagiarism”
The text thus generate was paste into a manuscript and was order broadly, following the structure suggest by ChatGPT.
Following this, genuine references were insert throughout, the study publish in the journal Innovations in Education and Teaching International said.
This process was reveal to readers only in the academic paper’s discussion section, written directly by the researchers without the software’s input.
As launch in November 2022, ChatGPT is the latest chatbot and artificial intelligence (AI) platform and has the potential to create increasing and exciting opportunities in academics.
So, as it grows more advance, it poses significant challenges for the academic community.
Lead Author Debby Cotton, professor at Plymouth Marjon University Said :
“This latest AI development obviously brings huge challenges for universities, not least in testing student knowledge and teaching writing skills – but looking positively it is an opportunity for us to rethink what we want students to learn and why”.
“I’d like to think that AI would enable us to automate some of the more administrative tasks academics do, allowing more time to be spent working with student,”.
Corresponding Author Peter Cotton, associate professor at University of Plymouth Said :
“Banning ChatGPT, as was done within New York schools, can only be a short-term solution while we think how to address the issues”.
“AI is already widely accessible to students outside their institutions, and companies like Microsoft and Google are rapidly incorporating it into search engines and Office suites”.
“The chat (sic) is already out of the bag, and the challenge for universities will be to adapt to a paradigm where the use of AI is the expected norm,”.
