Generative AI and Academic Integrity
AI tools have the potential to generate academic outputs which meet the requirement of particular assessment types, including essays, reports, tests etc.
This presents a number of key challenges for educators:
- As AI capabilities expand, it becomes increasingly difficult to ascertain what has been generated by digital tools and what has been generated by a human. As a result, generative AI poses an increasing threat to academic integrity in all disciplines, particularly to text-based and computational assignments.
- Generative AI tools, such as ChatGPT, can be used to take ‘shortcuts’ with assignments.
- Lines are blurring between plagiarism, fraud, and cheating: particularly where students are unclear on the boundaries between legitimate use of artificial intelligence (for example, spell-check, voice-to-text, grammar support tools etc.) and fraudulent use of AI-generated text presented as a student’s own work.
Source: University of Cincinnati's Preventing Student Plagiarism and Generative Artificial Intelligence & Academic Integrity (Centre for Academic Practice, Trinity College Dublin, 2023).
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