Hybridization of authorship blends human and AI-generated content, often without learners' explicit awareness of the boundary, normalizing formulaic rhetorical structures¶

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Currency · newest study 2026 · checked against its sources 2026-10-20 (automated, 1 of 1 entry) · not reviewed by a person

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q2 i? Students increasingly produce texts blending human and AI-generated content, often without explicit awareness of the boundary between personal reasoning and algorithmic output, raising questions of intellectual ownership and academic integrity. → Voicu 2026

Evidence¶

Voicu 2026¶

Voicu, C.-G. (2026). AI-Mediated Learning and the Restructuring of Interpretive Cognition: A Developmental-Critical Model for Social Sciences and Humanities Education. Journal of Digital Pedagogy, 5(1), 37–51. https://doi.org/10.61071/jdp.2665

q2 · i? · qualitative · r2

Second macro-transformation reported in Section 4.2 from the observational analysis. The article adds that AI-generated texts "tend to follow statistically dominant rhetorical structures, producing coherent yet often formulaic arguments" and that learners may incorporate fabricated or unverifiable references without evaluating accuracy.

"This blending often occurs without explicit awareness of the boundary between personal reasoning and algorithmic output, raising questions about intellectual ownership and academic integrity in AI-mediated environments (Selwyn, 2023)."

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