(10 Oct 2024) Plagiarism used to be an arduous task. Finding and copying content to plagiarize was hard work in and of itself. It was primarily a tool for those unsure about the quality of their work rather than a time/work saver. But as technology made plagiarism easier, it became a powerful shortcut. This caused…
(14 Aug 2024) Turnitin announced they were ending private plans for PlagScan, a plagiarism detection service they acquired in 2021. With that imminent closure, individuals can only access Turnitin’s services through iThenticate, which costs $125 per search, or a third-party partner like Scribbr. However, Christian Moriarty, an ethics and law professor at St. Petersburg College, asked…
The explosive uptake of generative artificial intelligence in writing is raising difficult questions about when use of the technology should be allowed. (30 Jul 2024) The rapid uptake of generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools — which create text in response to prompts — has raised questions about whether this constitutes plagiarism and under what…
(14 Feb 2024) Plagiarism seems to be everywhere and no institution, no matter how venerated, appears to be safe. Though it’s easy (and at least partially correct) to blame much of this rise on the weaponization of plagiarism, that weaponization wouldn’t have much impact if the plagiarism didn’t exist, at least to some degree. So, what…
(1 Sep 2023) Students and academics who use artificial intelligence tools to ‘ghostwrite’ essays or dissertations risk having their degrees revoked according to a new draft Degree Law to tackle misconduct, including plagiarism that is currently before China’s National People’s Congress (NPC). The draft law, submitted to the Standing Committee of the NPC this week,…
(29 Jun 2023) Earlier this week, Newsguard, a company that provides tools for vetting news sources, released a report on “Unreliable AI-Generated News and Information websites” or UAINs. According to the report, their UAIN site tracker has already grown from 49 sites to 277. They claim that the sites have generic-sounding names, but feature news…
(8 May 2023) Sometimes, the instructor or the editor gets it wrong. They see plagiarism where no plagiarism exists. There are a myriad of reasons that this can happen, but they all lead to stress and headache for the author. In some cases, they can even lead to unfair punishments. It’s important to understand some…
(30 Aug 2022) 2022 school year is shaping up to be a very interesting one when it comes to plagiarism and other issues of academic integrity. For many, it will be the first “normal” year since the start of the pandemic in 2020. However, that pandemic brought with it a spike in academic integrity issues.…
(23 May 2022) Over the weekend, the German carmaker Audi became the center of a massive plagiarism controversy as a new video campaign was accused of ripping off content from a prominent Chinese video blogger. The ad, which was produced by the London-based advertising agency M&C Saatchi, featured prominent Hong Kong actor and musician Andy Lau Tak-wah…
(8 Dec 2021) STM Solutions, the operational arm of STM (The International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers) today announced that it has started the development of a powerful new platform to detect integrity issues in manuscripts submitted for publication to scholarly journals. “This collaboration hub will provide a cloud-based environment for publishers…