Tag: plagiarism
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Court ruling: Language models don’t copy information; they synthesise it
in AIMasse, B. (2024, November 8). OpenAI’s data scraping wins big as Raw Story’s copyright lawsuit dismissed by NY court. VentureBeat. The judge noted that “the likelihood that ChatGPT would output plagiarized content from one of Plaintiffs’ articles seems remote.” This reflects a key difficulty in these types of cases: generative AI is designed to synthesize…
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Who cares about “referencing”?
Why do we teach our students how to reference? Mendeley, EndNote, Refworks, etc. all do it for you. In my experience the emphasis for students in higher education is almost always on what the citation looks like and not on the work the citation does. When it comes to learning about referencing for students, the focus is almost…
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How do students perceive academic literacy?
Narrative means towards literacy understandings: exploring transformations within literacies and migrating identities Last week I attended a short seminar by Dr. Catherine Hutchings from UCT, who presented some of the results of her PhD study looking at academic literacy and student identity. Here are some notes I took during the seminar. How do students develop…