Most of the article's body text was generated by ChatGPT from author prompts, and all references ChatGPT inserted were fictional¶
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q1 i? The authors disclose that everything up to the discussion was written by ChatGPT except sub-headings and references, and that ChatGPT's inserted references were plausible but entirely fictional. → Debby R. E. Cotton 2024
Evidence¶
Debby R. E. Cotton 2024¶
Debby R. E. Cotton, Peter A. Cotton & J. Reuben Shipway (2024) Chatting and cheating: Ensuring academic integrity in the era of ChatGPT, Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 61:2, 228-239. https://doi.org/10.1080/14703297.2023.2190148
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Authors' disclosure in the discussion section describing their demonstration of LLM sophistication. They state they removed the references inserted by ChatGPT because they were "plausible but entirely fictional" and substituted genuine references. This is an interpretive disclosure, not a tested result.
"As the alert reader may already have guessed, everything up to this point in the paper was written directly by ChatGPT, with the exception of the sub-headings and references."
Discussion¶
Related Claims¶
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Most of the article's body text was generated by ChatGPT from author prompts, and all references ChatGPT inserted were fictional |
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Most of the article's body text was generated by ChatGPT from author prompts, and all references ChatGPT inserted were fictional |
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