#plagiarism — Public Fediverse posts
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Yet another high-ranking Romanian official has been accused of plagiarism. Unfortunately, it's unlikely to cause any real consequences for anyone involved.
https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2026/09/03/yet-another-romanian-plagiarism-scandal-2/
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Mandarin-language podcaster Zhong Shu found international fame with an interview with Christopher Nolan. Then the allegations of plagiarism began.
https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2026/09/01/zhong-shu-and-the-price-of-being-a-celebrity/
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"It is easy to publish things on the internet. It’s a little more time-consuming to report, write, edit and fact-check things." —Sara Rubin, #MontereyCountyNow
#AI #news #AIslop #media #journalism #integrity #plagiarism #ethics
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https://app.ft.com/content/f100c90b-c138-4125-aaa7-853b77690db9
“I look for information density,” he says. “When a person writes, every word has intention behind it. When AI generates text, it does not.”
About detecting whether text is written by AI or not.
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Undisclosed AI can enter the publishing process, but suspicion and software scores can also damage writers who may have done nothing wrong.
So how do you know for sure that the book you are reading was written by a human, rather than AI?
Books By People takes a unique approach. Instead of treating an AI-detector score as proof, it examines the human authorship trail behind a book.
https://www.movetheneedle.news/brands/mtn-weekend--can-you-prove-a-book-was-written-by-a-human-/
#AI #technology #fraud #plagiarism #literature #publishing #governance #business
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Elders of the G3 Ministry have apologized and resigned after they were found to be behind an anonymous dossier accusing another pastor of plagiarism.
https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2026/08/27/plagiarism-and-the-collapse-of-the-g3-ministry/
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RE: https://mastodon.archive.org/@internetarchive/117168452160850013
It's not the #webScraping itself that's the problem. It's how #LLMs separate #content from its #provenance, and the #plagiarism that directly follows from that separation.
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“Analysis shows how UK media lost interest in Arday after killing him”
by Skwawkbox with The Canary
@uk_politics
@thecanaryuk
@UKLabour
@BBC5Live
@BBCRadio4
@BBCNews
@guardian
@Independent
@thetimes“Analysis by news monitoring site Newscord has exposed the cynical pile-on by UK ‘mainstream’ media that drove Black academic Jason Arday to his death – and the equally cynical way the media lost interest after killing him.
Arday died after being hounded by the media following accusations of plagiarism by white-supremacist ‘racial scientist’ Nathan Cofnas. Cofnas believes Black people are innately less intelligent than whites, especially Jews”
https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2026/08/25/jason-arday-media-coverage/
#Press #SocialMedia #Journalism #UK #Britain #MSM #LegacyMedia #Arday #Suicide #Plagiarism #Cofnas #Racism #WhiteSupremacy #Eugenics #IPSO #ShamRegulator #Guardian #RightWing
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Just came across an AI-generated image that looks like a hand-drawn one-panel cartoon. What’s especially egregious about it was that the extruder synthesized an artist’s signature in the corner…using an ACTUAL ARTIST’S NAME. The image carries a SynthID watermark so it was easy to verify that it was AI-generated (OpenAI to be precise), and the style looked NOTHING like the art style of the artist it impersonated.
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A dispute over a ranch dressing flavor ends with a visit from a secret copyright police and a trip to prison. Just another day in the world of American Dad.
https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2026/08/26/plagiarism-in-pop-culture-american-dad/
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Every time that I watch a Hollywood "Sci-Fi" movie...
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@AAKL @TheConversationUS This may be naive but I dont understand why multiple issues cant be true at the same time. None of them have to be political.
Universities tout themselves as the moral arbitrator of society. It is natural for society to pounce when a member of the academy fails to live up to this self imposed standard. It is also understandable if the academy fails to hold those accountable for breaking that moral pact that adversaries will use that as attack fodder.
Universities are full of people, and people are fallible. Maybe instead of holding these institutions to an impossibly high moral standard society and the universities themselves takes a more introspective measured approach and response to when issues arise.
Facts:
1. It is tragic that he took his life.
2. Suicide is a complex topic and no one can positively apply cause.
3. The institutions that hired him did so without a comprehensive background check. Cambridge admitted as much.
4. There was / is intense media scrutiny on both the institutions and the individual, who was a public figure.Reasonable Questions IMO
1. Why did none of the institutions do a comprehensive background check, or if they did why did they not course correct?
2. Should media coverage been more on the individual or the institutions?
3. What was the environment that allowed for this to get as far as it did?IMO instead of politicizing this tragedy. All parties, media, the universities, and us should take a step back and think about how it got to a place where this individual was elevated to a position of very high public prestige that he was apparently unqualified for. What is our responsibility as a society for elevating and in the end destroying this person?
And how do we prevent it from happening again.
These are the questions we should be asking, rather than trying to score cheap political points.
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I've seen some really bad apologies, but this one's a real doozy. What Ross Barkan thinks he did wrong is that he "did not paraphrase well enough." Seriously, somebody who claims to be a journalist wrote that.
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Mediaite: Ross Barkan Apologizes Amid Mounting Plagiarism Accusations
https://www.mediaite.com/media/ex-new-york-magazine-writer-taking-time-to-self-reflect-after-probe-finds-dozens-of-instances-of-plagiarism/
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An expert witness in a multi-million-dollar lawsuit was caught using AI to draft his report. Then his former clients tried to disqualify him.
https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2026/08/19/expert-witness-caught-using-ai-to-write-report/
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@Black_Flag A faulty #plagiarism detector, that delivered false positives!
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@Black_Flag The charge of #plagiarism against Jason #Arday was disproved, yet he was still harassed out of his professorial job at #Cambridge over it, even though it was false!
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New York Magazine has parted ways with columnist Ross Barkan after an investigation found citation issues in 67 of his columns.
https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2026/08/17/new-york-mag-fires-ross-barkan-over-plagiarism/
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R.I.P. Jason Arday (1985-2026)
Jason Arday, pictured in 2023I read the terrible news about the death of Jason Arday on Friday evening. The first thing I want to do is express heartfelt condolences to his family – especially his wife and two children – and his friends and former colleagues and my hope that the media who hounded Prof. Arday to his death will at least give them some space to mourn his loss.
The word “tragedy” is often misused, applied to any event that is sad which this certainly is. The case of Jason Arday is a true tragedy in the sense arising from Greek drama: the central protagonists are always flawed characters who makes bad decisions, but are propelled relentlessly towards their fate by forces entirely beyond their control. Once the right-wing media lynch mob got hold of this story they were never going to back off. This is just some of the coverage from one newspaper, The Daily Telegraph.
Source: BlueskyYes, Arday did bad things, but the media attention was utterly disproportionate. Nobody could be expected to withstand such treatment. How did the people churning out these articles think this would end?
I find this whole saga bleaker than anything Sophocles wrote, because nobody comes out of it with any credit at all. Not Arday himself, nor Cambridge University, nor the press, nor Nathan Cofnas, the white supremacist blogger who brought everything out into the open. The latter may have exposed academic misconduct, but his motivation was rooted in his racist views and undoubtedly malicious.
Of course academic misconduct is wrong, but it does not warrant a death sentence. And where was the media furore when a (white) History professor at Cambridge, William O’Reilly, was found to have plagiarised his own students essays? Professor O’Reilly, incidentally, remains in post. That’s just one example. I’m sure there are dozens more that we know nothing about, because they couldn’t be used to further racist ends. If standards are not applied equally then they can be used to reinforce prejudice, as they have in this case. It’s called hypocrisy.
The usual Culture Warmongers are using this case to further their agenda against the principles of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion which are supposed to be adopted in universities and other institutions. For myself, this tragedy demonstrates that EDI* principles are not satisfied by mere tokenism, a facile form of window-dressing that does nothing to change the culture within the organisation.
(*For any Americans reading this I use the UK/European EDI in preference to the DEI used in the States which reminds me too much of OPUS DEI.)
In a slightly different context, this is why I have become cynical about the “widening participation” efforts by many higher-education institutions to recruit students from disadvantaged backgrounds. These may succeed in bringing more such students into courses – and hence greater income to the university – but they are rarely backed up by the support needed to enable them to succeed. Many institutions do not even track the outcomes of these students, not because they can’t but because The Management doesn’t care: once they’re in through the door that’s “job done”.
I came from what some people would call a disadvantaged background, although I don’t think of it that way. That I have had a career in academia is a result of an enormous amount of luck, starting way back in primary school. I would dearly like to see a system in which luck wasn’t so important, but what is being done now is not the way to achieve that. If we’re going to do EDI – and we should – let’s do it properly.
UPDATE: 20/8/2026. Nathan Cofnas has been suspended by Gent University pending a disciplinary process.
#DEI #Diversity #EDI #Equity #Inclusion #JasonArday #Plagiarism -
Despite the myth that #academia is the bastion of civilization, in the real world, it is a place of threats, envy, and opportunism. #JasonArday may have taken his life following an accusation of #plagiarism. Very sad end to a gifted individual who no doubt faced enormous internal pressure and as usual, it's the fucking British press behind it - the same pond scum who regularly cuddle up to the real frauds like #Farage and #Trump.
Be at peace Jason.
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The New York Times - Breaking News, US News, World News and Videos [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·Professor’s Death Leaves Behind Hard Questions for Cambridge on Race and Hiring
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Derf Backderf: "I’m ready to weigh in on the CHARITY & SYLVIA controversy. I’ve read both books and compared & contrasted them, and their sources.
Is Tillie Walden’s book a rip off of Rachel Hope Cleves’ book, as the professor claims?
No. It is not."
Please do read the post; accusing someone of plagiarism by implying ownership of public research materials is shitty as fuck, and nakedly classist.
#CharityAndSilvia #RachelHopeCleves #TillieWalden #Plagiarism #PSA
https://buttondown.com/thene/archive/charity-and-sylvia-the-extraordinary-claims-of/
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Hundreds of paper-mill papers peddled in ads were later published
More than one-fifth of some IEEE conferences’ papers appear linked to authorship for sale
https://www.science.org/content/article/hundreds-paper-mill-papers-peddled-ads-were-later-published #Plagiarism #Ethics #AcademicMisconduct #Engineering
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Hundreds of paper-mill papers peddled in ads were later published
More than one-fifth of some IEEE conferences’ papers appear linked to authorship for sale
https://www.science.org/content/article/hundreds-paper-mill-papers-peddled-ads-were-later-published #Plagiarism #Ethics #AcademicMisconduct #Engineering
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Hundreds of paper-mill papers peddled in ads were later published
More than one-fifth of some IEEE conferences’ papers appear linked to authorship for sale
https://www.science.org/content/article/hundreds-paper-mill-papers-peddled-ads-were-later-published #Plagiarism #Ethics #AcademicMisconduct #Engineering
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Hundreds of paper-mill papers peddled in ads were later published
More than one-fifth of some IEEE conferences’ papers appear linked to authorship for sale
https://www.science.org/content/article/hundreds-paper-mill-papers-peddled-ads-were-later-published #Plagiarism #Ethics #AcademicMisconduct #Engineering
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Hundreds of paper-mill papers peddled in ads were later published
More than one-fifth of some IEEE conferences’ papers appear linked to authorship for sale
https://www.science.org/content/article/hundreds-paper-mill-papers-peddled-ads-were-later-published #Plagiarism #Ethics #AcademicMisconduct #Engineering
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Check out "AI Plagiarism Checker Users Beware," my new article for "Media Literacy with Wes:"
https://wfryer.substack.com/p/ai-plagiarism-checker-users-beware -
Authors are increasingly facing allegations of using AI to generate their work. How do you prove that your writing is human? Here are some tools to help.
https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2026/08/11/how-to-prove-that-your-writing-is-not-ai/
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@steveroyle
Clear and compelling.“Using generative AI inherently exposes you to the risk of career-ending accusations of plagiarism.
“Before, I said that “generative AI repackages other writers’ ideas and words as your own, without giving them credit or citing appropriately.” A lot of people would say that constitutes plagiarism—especially people who make their living as creative writers. I generally agree with them, but that’s not the point of this post.
“What I’ve come to realize is that, regardless of any true similarity between your words and someone else’s, or your ideas and someone else’s, generative AI exposes you to risk that you, as a writer, cannot mitigate.
“This is true for three basic reasons:
“Plagiarism is subjective.
“Plagiarism is a continuum.
“Not all plagiarism accusations are made in good faith.”
End quote. The case of Gay, cited (NOT relitigated) makes the point (plagiarism accusations as a career-ender) even clearer. And you need to be able yo trust your co-authors - another reason for adopting an explicit standard.
Also mentions the original problem (or academic ‘sin’): the black box nature of generative AI/ LLMs such that you have no idea whose words or works it’s citing (so you can’t ‘fix’ it by adding the correct citations, for instance).#careerEndingAccusationsOfPlagiarism #genAI #LLMs #plagiarism #AbsentCitation #cannotFix #cannotMitigate #trust
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The AI Gardening Book Revolution has Arrived
https://piefed.social/c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world/p/2275291/the-ai-gardening-book-revolution-has-arrived
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CW: AI, LLM, Anthropic Copyright Infringement
Apparently #Anthropic has been ordered to pay ca. $1.5 billion for #copyright #infringement on about 500K #books they used to train #Claude along with the order to destroy any #unauthorized copies & #pirated files they possess:
Considering the amount of money they stand to make from Claude's continued existence, this seems like little more than a slap on the wrist to me. Also, I find it hard to believe how it will be possible to enforce the order to destroy the illicit files.
#AI #LibGen #PiLiMi #piracy #copyrightInfringement #plagiarism #theft #thievery #stealing #LLM #LLMs #BartzvAnthropic #Bartz #classAction #publisher #publishers #author #authors #settlement #ClaudeAI #trainingData
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Dichroism and Spectra of Precious Stones (1905), from Precious Stones.
Source: California Digital Library / Internet Archive
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/4cfbb7de-5c51-42fa-b017-1da562689074
#gemstones #decadence #plagiarism #aesthetics #art #publicdomain
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Laws Every Scout Should Know
Being a Scout means more than camping, hiking, and earning merit badges. Scouts are also expected to be good citizens who understand the rules and laws that help keep our communities safe and fair. While Scouts are not expected to be lawyers, learning about important laws can help them become informed and responsible leaders. 1. The Scout Law and the Law of the Land The Scout Law teaches Scouts to be Trustworthy, Loyal, Helpful, Friendly, Courteous, Kind, Obedient, Cheerful, Thrifty, Brave, […]https://troop161ma.wordpress.com/2026/06/26/laws-every-scout-should-know/
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A recent study highlights just how inexpensive and easy it is to purchase authorship in an academic paper. In some cases, it can be as little as $57.
#ResearchIntegrity #AcademicIntegrity #Plagiarism #RetractionWatch
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Why then should I give my Readers bad Lines of my own, when good Ones of other People’s are so plenty? ‘Tis methinks a poor Excuse for the bad Entertainment of Guests, that the Food we set before them, tho’ coarse and ordinary, is of one’s own Raising, off one’s own Plantation, &c. when there is Plenty of what is ten times better, to be had in the Market. — On the contrary, I assure ye, my Friends, that I have procur’d the best I could for ye, and much Good may’t do ye.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard (1747 ed.)More about this quote: wist.info/franklin-benjamin/46…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #franklin #benfranklin #benjaminfranklin #poorrichard #poorrichardsalamanac #borrowing #copying #curation #infringement #modesty #piracy #plagiarism #reuse #theft
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If you were as irritated as I was when #RetractionWatch of all outlets uncritically linked to a sensationalist article celebrating Ulrike #Guerot of all people as a martyr - the conspiratorial academic convicted of #plagiarism by an actual court.
Well, then you now have the chance to do better. :)
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I got nominated in the Credit The Creators newsletter! 🎉
I submitted my latest video last week, and I was absolutely delighted and honoured to have been one of the four creators selected for a poll for next week’s Featured Creator! This was my most ambitious video yet, one that I was very nervous to release due to the subject matter, so I couldn’t be happier with the engagement and support it’s been getting! 😄💚
Thank you so much to @jjjacksfilms and his team for picking me, and best of luck to the other three creators chosen! If you’d like to vote for me, subscribe to the Credit The Creators newsletter and find the poll for Week 29 (Voting is for two days only, so make sure to get your vote in ASAP)!👇
🔗https://creditthecreators.substack.com/p/week-29-all-4-nominees-look-amazing#poll-405017
#CTC #CreditTheCreators #Credit_the_Creators #Plagiarism #Copyright #AllenPan #Allen_Pan #Blingmcqueen #Kabbaway #Kabba #Kab #Kabbidge #Kabbidges #SWNTBH #ScandalsWhichNeedToBeHandled #VideoEssay #Video_Essay #News #Media #Broadcasters #FairUse #Fair_Use #Fair_Dealing #FairDealing #SufficientAcknowledgement #Sufficient_Acknowledgement #Journalism #Journalist #Reporting #Video #YouTube #YT #YouTuber #YTer
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One year ago, the news broadcasted clips and images from that video without credit. Even though that incident is long behind me, I've come to realise just how pervasive a problem this actually is. Join me as I delve into the rabbit hole of haphazard journalism and its impact on online creators.
🔗 https://youtu.be/6kIgkIs72Cs
#CTC #CreditTheCreators #Credit_the_Creators #Plagiarism #Copyright #AllenPan #Allen_Pan #Blingmcqueen #Kabbaway #Kabba #Kab #Kabbidge #Kabbidges #SWNTBH #ScandalsWhichNeedToBeHandled #VideoEssay #Video_Essay #News #Media #Broadcasters #FairUse #Fair_Use #Fair_Dealing #FairDealing #SufficientAcknowledgement #Sufficient_Acknowledgement #Journalism #Journalist #Reporting #Video #YouTube #YT #YouTuber #YTer
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Elon Musk Launches Grokipedia With Copied Wikipedia Pages and Right-Leaning Bias
#AI #Grokipedia #ElonMusk #Wikipedia #xAI #AIEthics #AIBias #Plagiarism #TechNews #BigTech #Grok #InformationWars
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Surprised by this? NOT!
Traditional Plagiarism = Out
AI Powered Misconduct = GrowingSurvey of academic integrity violations i the UK found almost 7,000 proven cases of cheating using AI tools in 2023-24, or 5.1 for every 1,000 students, and increase from 1.6 cases per 1,000 in 2022-23. Indications are it will increase to ~ 7.5 proven cases per 1,000 students. Discovered cases represent only the tip of the iceberg.
In 2019-20, before the widespread availability of generative AI, plagiarism accounted for nearly two-thirds of all academic misconduct.
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/jun/15/thousands-of-uk-university-students-caught-cheating-using-ai-artificial-intelligence-survey#Plagiarism #AI #AICheating #Universities #CollegeStudents #academicmisconduct #Guardian
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Surprised by this? NOT!
Traditional Plagiarism = Out
AI Powered Misconduct = GrowingSurvey of academic integrity violations i the UK found almost 7,000 proven cases of cheating using AI tools in 2023-24, or 5.1 for every 1,000 students, and increase from 1.6 cases per 1,000 in 2022-23. Indications are it will increase to ~ 7.5 proven cases per 1,000 students. Discovered cases represent only the tip of the iceberg.
In 2019-20, before the widespread availability of generative AI, plagiarism accounted for nearly two-thirds of all academic misconduct.
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/jun/15/thousands-of-uk-university-students-caught-cheating-using-ai-artificial-intelligence-survey#Plagiarism #AI #AICheating #Universities #CollegeStudents #academicmisconduct #Guardian
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Surprised by this? NOT!
Traditional Plagiarism = Out
AI Powered Misconduct = GrowingSurvey of academic integrity violations i the UK found almost 7,000 proven cases of cheating using AI tools in 2023-24, or 5.1 for every 1,000 students, and increase from 1.6 cases per 1,000 in 2022-23. Indications are it will increase to ~ 7.5 proven cases per 1,000 students. Discovered cases represent only the tip of the iceberg.
In 2019-20, before the widespread availability of generative AI, plagiarism accounted for nearly two-thirds of all academic misconduct.
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/jun/15/thousands-of-uk-university-students-caught-cheating-using-ai-artificial-intelligence-survey#Plagiarism #AI #AICheating #Universities #CollegeStudents #academicmisconduct #Guardian
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Surprised by this? NOT!
Traditional Plagiarism = Out
AI Powered Misconduct = GrowingSurvey of academic integrity violations i the UK found almost 7,000 proven cases of cheating using AI tools in 2023-24, or 5.1 for every 1,000 students, and increase from 1.6 cases per 1,000 in 2022-23. Indications are it will increase to ~ 7.5 proven cases per 1,000 students. Discovered cases represent only the tip of the iceberg.
In 2019-20, before the widespread availability of generative AI, plagiarism accounted for nearly two-thirds of all academic misconduct.
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/jun/15/thousands-of-uk-university-students-caught-cheating-using-ai-artificial-intelligence-survey#Plagiarism #AI #AICheating #Universities #CollegeStudents #academicmisconduct #Guardian
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Surprised by this? NOT!
Traditional Plagiarism = Out
AI Powered Misconduct = GrowingSurvey of academic integrity violations i the UK found almost 7,000 proven cases of cheating using AI tools in 2023-24, or 5.1 for every 1,000 students, and increase from 1.6 cases per 1,000 in 2022-23. Indications are it will increase to ~ 7.5 proven cases per 1,000 students. Discovered cases represent only the tip of the iceberg.
In 2019-20, before the widespread availability of generative AI, plagiarism accounted for nearly two-thirds of all academic misconduct.
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/jun/15/thousands-of-uk-university-students-caught-cheating-using-ai-artificial-intelligence-survey#Plagiarism #AI #AICheating #Universities #CollegeStudents #academicmisconduct #Guardian
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#CalledToTheBar pod | #Plagiarism and Ethics at #InternationalCourts
an interesting discussion sparked by the recent revelation that Judge #JuliaSebutinde plagiarized portions of her dissent to the #ICJ's advisory opinion on the #IsraeliOccupation of #Palestine
#JudicialEthics #InternationalJustice #InternationalCourtOfJustice #Israel #oPt @palestine @israel
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#CalledToTheBar pod | #Plagiarism and Ethics at #InternationalCourts
an interesting discussion sparked by the recent revelation that Judge #JuliaSebutinde plagiarized portions of her dissent to the #ICJ's advisory opinion on the #IsraeliOccupation of #Palestine
#JudicialEthics #InternationalJustice #InternationalCourtOfJustice #Israel #oPt @palestine @israel
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#CalledToTheBar pod | #Plagiarism and Ethics at #InternationalCourts
an interesting discussion sparked by the recent revelation that Judge #JuliaSebutinde plagiarized portions of her dissent to the #ICJ's advisory opinion on the #IsraeliOccupation of #Palestine
#JudicialEthics #InternationalJustice #InternationalCourtOfJustice #Israel #oPt @palestine @israel
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#CalledToTheBar pod | #Plagiarism and Ethics at #InternationalCourts
an interesting discussion sparked by the recent revelation that Judge #JuliaSebutinde plagiarized portions of her dissent to the #ICJ's advisory opinion on the #IsraeliOccupation of #Palestine
#JudicialEthics #InternationalJustice #InternationalCourtOfJustice #Israel #oPt @palestine @israel
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#AcademicMisconduct tend to be very common in some contexts. Actually the norm. Imagine now that you are unfairly accused of #AI #plagiarism.
How the emerging world collapse with old (bad) practices, multiplying the issue and requiring #P2P fair systems rightly mediate by #AI.
