Academic Integrity
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Is Using ChatGPT to Start a Paper Actually Cheating? Trying to Think This Through.
I've been running this question with my grade 11 ethics class and I genuinely don't have a clean answer. thought i'd bring it here. The spectrum of use seems relevant: using ChatGPT…
Is the AI Cheating Panic Overblown? Some Perspective
I'm going to say something unpopular: the panic around AI and academic dishonesty is significantly overblown, and it's leading to bad policy decisions. Most students using ChatGPT are not doing what we…
The Ethics of AI Text Humanizers in Education
AI humanizers raise some genuinely interesting ethical questions that I think deserve serious discussion beyond simple "it's cheating" takes. At the most basic level, using an AI humanizer to disguise AI-generated work…
The Ethics of AI Humanizers – A Conversation We’re Not Having Seriously
I wrote a thread about AI humanizers last year and got mostly practical responses about detection. I want to try the ethics angle this time. AI humanizers exist to make AI-generated text…
Is AI Writing Plagiarism? Where the Line Gets Blurry
This question keeps coming up in department meetings and I think it deserves more nuance than it usually gets. Traditional plagiarism means taking someone else's work and presenting it as your own.…
The Student Perspective on AI Bans – From Someone Who Remembers Being One
graduated 4 years ago so i'm maybe the closest person in this thread to the student experience. first year teaching now. when i was in school the ban was on phones. we…
Is Using ChatGPT Cheating? Let’s Have an Honest Conversation
This is the question I hear more than any other right now: is using ChatGPT cheating? And honestly, I don't think there's one simple answer. It depends entirely on context. If a…
Caught a student submitting a purchased essay, AI wasnt even involved
funny how everyone talks about ai cheating now but this week i caught good old fashioned contract cheating, a student bought an essay from one of those paper mill sites. turnitin actually…
AI-Generated Text and Plagiarism – Are These Even the Same Problem?
Been thinking about this since our school updated its academic integrity language this term. The new wording treats AI-generated content and plagiarism as the same category - both are 'submitting work that…
Should first offense AI use get the same consequence as repeat offense plagiarism
working through a revision of our academic integrity policy this month and stuck on a specific question. right now our policy treats first offense ai misuse identically to first offense traditional plagiarism,…
Paraphrasing tools in grad writing, where does the line fall
Working on my thesis and I've been running some of my more awkward sentences through QuillBot when I know what I mean but cant get the phrasing right, especially after a long…