Robots writing research
Did you read the Scientific American article, We Asked GPT-3 to Write an Academic Paper about Itself—Then We Tried to Get It Published?
Long story short: researchers used artificial intelligence as a ghostwriter!
The research article was then submitted to several peer review journals. It’s been published and is in consideration with others. The author, Almira Osmanovic Thunström, speaks to her ethical concerns as she was helping submit the work for the artificial intelligence agent.
It makes me think that peer reviewed journals should look at enacting something like a cross-questioning interview with those that are submitting work.
Like, Wasi and I have been aware of “bots” that students are using to beat plagiarism detection tools. We knew the day would come when a person would be able to use artificial intelligence to write an essay for them, but we were thinking that would be GPT-4. But here it is, AI is the new ghostwriter.
What does this mean for the classroom in general? Well, not too much soon. This article was reported because it is novel. But are there issues when learners will be able to use artificial intelligence to write research papers for them? Well, yes! That’s exactly what the article is about.
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What does this mean for the classroom in general?
If anything, this article shows why Auth+ is so important now! This is what Auth+ is designed to do – identify ghostwriting. A student submits their work to Auth+. Auth+ reads the submission, then asks students about what they wrote. Once completed the instructor gets a report.
Auth+ helps instructors identify ghostwriting, ask students about contract cheating:
- The AI-driven, 6-question quiz creates questions using passages from the paper itself.
- It checks a student’s familiarity with the submission and reports a Familiarity Score to the instructor.
- The Familiarity Score quickly tells the instructor the probability of authorship.