(16 Nov 2024) Most academics have used ChatGPT for parts of their work, and many keep using it to help with manuscript writing. While AI is nowhere near replacing human authors in academia, it can substantially speed up writing. But doing so risks your content being flagged as AI-generated plagiarism. To know what you can and can’t do you need to understand how these tools work and how you can ethically use AI to be more productive in academia.
In this article, Ilya Shabonov explains how AI detection works, how reliable it is and to what extent using AI can be considered plagiarism. He will focus on academic text and, in the end, find out how AI might kill academic writing in the near future.