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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Hybrid writing is becoming the norm
Sarah Eaton has envisaged a “post-plagiarism era where we can’t know where the human ends and AI begins” – one in which hybrid outputs are the norm. To accept that, we must acknowledge the ways in which artificial intelligence might change the ways we understand concepts like cheating, and what constitutes good learning. Eva Alcock.…
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Link: Ethical guidelines for generative AI in research
Lin, Z. (2024). Building ethical guidelines for generative AI in scientific research. Arxiv. This paper offers an initial framework by developing analyses and mitigation strategies across five key themes: understanding model limitations regarding truthfulness and bias; respecting privacy, confidentiality, and copyright; avoiding plagiarism and policy violations when incorporating model output; ensuring applications provide overall benefit;…
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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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I enjoyed reading (February)
Disrupting the diploma (Reid Hoffman): I love the idea of a certification as a “communication device”. …we need to apply new technologies to the primary tool of traditional certification, the diploma. We need to take what now exists as a dumb, static document and turn it into a richer, updateable, more connected record of a…
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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…
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-08
RT @cristinacost: Forum: Qualitative Social Research. Open access journal on qual. research http://twurl.nl/6dzg0w # RT @Richard_Dawkins: Beetle’s Hue Preserved After 600,000 Years: oldest example of vivid color on a prehistoric creature http://is.gd/9Axfl # Edge 313 – Why it’s time to start taking the internet seriously http://bit.ly/bXjH39 # German Study Casts Doubt on Net Gen Claims…
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-11-23
Just installed Seesmic for Android on HTC Hero, think I prefer it to the default Twitter client, Peep # Data Liberation Front, an internal team at Google who want you to own your data http://j.mp/53wy3L # The Data Liberation Front, internal team at Google concerned with data ownership – http://j.mp/53wy3L # RT @tombarrett: 28 Interesting…