AI makes plagiarism harder to detect, argue academics – in paper written by chatbot

Lecturers say programs capable of writing competent student coursework threaten academic integrity

An academic paper entitled Chatting and Cheating: Ensuring Academic Integrity in the Era of ChatGPT was published this month in an education journal, describing how artificial intelligence (AI) tools raise a number of challenges and concerns, particularly in relation to academic honesty and plagiarism".

What readers - and indeed the peer reviewers who cleared it for publication - did not know was that the paper itself had been written by the controversial AI chatbot ChatGPT.