What is even the point of education if you don't actually intend to learn anything? I always hated oral exams, but at this point they seem like a very good idea.
“A philosophy professor across the country at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock caught students in her Ethics and Technology class using AI to respond to the prompt “Briefly introduce yourself and say what you’re hoping to get out of this class.””
In case you were wondering about adding an AI system as author to your next paper: ICMJE says "NO!"
"Chatbots (such as ChatGPT) should not be listed as authors because they cannot be responsible for the accuracy, integrity, and originality of the work, and these responsibilities are required for authorship"
5/ Legal concerns are also emerging. Some scholars worry that this mandate could infringe on free speech, especially for non-CDC researchers. Many are now urging their peers to resist complying with the directive. #FreeSpeech #AcademicIntegrity
Oxford scientist resigns from Royal Society over Elon Musk’s continuing fellowship
Prof Dorothy Bishop said fellowship was ‘a contradiction of all the values’ of UK’s national academy of sciences
The Einstein Foundation Award Winners for 2024 have been announced:
https://award.einsteinfoundation.de/award-winners-finalists/recipients-2024
Elisabeth Bik and PubPeer are winners!
Holding AIs to account (3 of 3)
In which I ask the robot why I should help it do its job
NB I use the free gpts to periodically check where they're at
#ArtificialIntelligence
#OpenAccess
#AcademicPublishing
#Ethics
#chatGPT
#HigherEducation
#AcademicIntegrity
https://academicemergence.press/current-conversation/holding-ais-to-account-3-of-3/
![Key takeaways
the bot contradicts itself by saying it only works from a ‘fixed data set’ yet in a previous response (2 of 3) it said ‘if you provide me with the title or content […] I can work with the most relevant and up-to-date information, even if it falls outside my current training data”
the bot ‘argues’ that by feeding it data, I do service to Open Access knowledge
the both concludes that we could have a ‘reciprocal relationship‘ but that it’s ‘my choice‘](https://cdn.masto.host/sciencessocial/media_attachments/files/113/197/121/466/463/324/original/99c1a4a1d9df434a.jpg)
63 expressions of concern for recent papers published in the environmental chemistry journal 'Chemosphere' published by Elsevier.
A journal that I have published in many times.
More from RetractionWatch here, with links to the expressions of concern and the PubPeer commentary:
Need an icon to designate whether your work is AI-generated or created in collaboration with an AI system? Martine Peters proposes these logos:
https://mpeters.uqo.ca/logos-ai-en-peters-2023/
The University of Rostock has rescinded the doctorate of the Berlin Transportation Senator Manja Schreiner: https://www.uni-rostock.de/universitaet/kommunikation-und-aktuelles/medieninformationen/detailansicht/n/entscheidung-im-fall-dissertation-manja-schreiner-193477/
She has stepped down.
If you are interested in the extent of the #plagiarism in her doctorate, the report is at https://vroniplag.fandom.com/de/wiki/Msr/Bericht (in German, scroll down for the side-by-sides).
Science: "Embattled Harvard honesty professor accused of plagiarism"
https://www.science.org/content/article/embattled-harvard-honesty-professor-accused-plagiarism
I note that correct citation is not that difficult.
@brembs
Amen! 'These investigations always take too long, are shrouded in secrecy, and lead to public statements crafted by attorneys and crisis consultants that are evasive and incomplete.' Not just in the US, bit in Germany as well.
#AcademicChatter
#academicintegrity
An adjunct professor for computer security found some odd stuff her students turned in:
https://labs.ripe.net/author/kathleen_moriarty/the-llm-misinformation-problem-i-was-not-expecting/
It was not the students' use of a #ChatBot that was the problem, but they were using material found on the internet that *itself* was created by a hallucinating ChatBot and published without verification!
This is a type of model collapse we will be dealing with not just at universities in the near future.
In case anyone was thinking of using AI tools to assess or summarise CVs/resumes: maybe don't. They are vulnerable to prompt injection from hidden text in files:
https://kai-greshake.de/posts/inject-my-pdf/
HT @mhoye
#AItools #AcademicIntegrity #JobSearch #Recruiting
Retraction Watch is now keeping a list of mass resignations of editors of academic journals:
https://retractionwatch.com/the-retraction-watch-mass-resignations-list/
Hello @annamills, thank you for your work on #AI literacies, pedagogies, and awareness raising. It's helping me, at least, raise awareness within my own academic writing contexts.
Are you aware of any similar and/or specific work - including your own that I'm not aware of - relating to the use of #LLMs and other #ArtificialIntelligence writing technologies in #DoctoralWriting #DoctoralResearch #ResearchWriting?
Reduce AI cheating with assignments designed with TRUST:
* Transparency
* Real World Applications
* Universal Design for Learning
* Social Knowledge Construction
* Trial and Error
https://fordeeperlearning.org/reducing-ai-cheating-with-assignment-design/
#AIEd #EdTech #AcademicIntegrity #Teaching #HigherEd
@serenissimaj
There were a lot of talks in this direction at the European Conference on Ethics and Integrity in Academia a few weeks ago in Derby, organized by ENAI. The abstract booklet is on the conference page: https://academicintegrity.eu/conference/
The books by and edited by @drsaraheaton
will also have many good leads, she has a doctoral student working on Chile.
Final session is the Sponsor's session with
Eric WANG from Turnitin and
Martina SILIANO from Compilatio
Wang starts out by stating that the AI detection tool that they offer is only an enabler for a conversation between a teacher and a student, not a decision tool or something that offers proof.
I jump in saying that the integration of the two tools confuses the issue. Plagiarism is different from AI-text generation.
@DrLancaster
answers the question "Can Machine Generated Text Be Detected?" with a resounding NO*
(* at least not consistently, accurately and automatically).
The students you catch are the ones who are bad at cheating and thus need the most help.
