AI-assisted plagiarism? ChatGPT bot says it has an answer for that

Silicon Valley firm insists its new text generator, which writes human-sounding essays, can overcome fears over cheating

A confident bullshitter that can write very convincing nonsense': not a takedown of an annoying student or a former British prime minister, but a description of an artificial intelligence writing programme that is causing headaches for its makers.

With fears in academia growing about a new AI chatbot that can write convincing essays - even if some facts it uses aren't strictly true - the Silicon Valley firm behind a chatbot released last month are racing to fingerprint" its output to head off a wave of AIgiarism" - or AI-assisted plagiarism.