[Athen] AI-focused plagiarism checkers and assistive technologies

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Hey Justin

GPTZero does a great job detecting artificial language. Here's a link:
https://gptzero.me/

Wink



On Thu, Apr 27, 2023, 3:24 PM Romack, Justin <justinr at disability.tamu.edu>
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> Howdy y’all!

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> I’m a strong advocate for AI solutions like ChatGPT and other generative

> text tools that, when used ethically and responsibly, have the chance to

> spark new and exciting ways to create and communicate…

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> But I’ve had two students in the past 24 hours (with 0 other concerns this

> entire semester) who have been flagged for plagiarism by TurnITIn (cited as

> using ChatGPT or AI technologies).

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> Both use assistive technologies (one is a speech-to-text user and the

> other uses a text prediction tool). They both also use Grammarly (one says

> they only made use of Grammarly’s features to change a word here or there,

> while the other mentions Grammarly helped them re-write entire sentences at

> a time). I could see the latter example with Grammarly causing issues,

> unless the first example was being conservative with how they truly used

> the tool.

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> Does anyone know much about the underlying technology of word prediction

> tools or Grammarly? I know there’s some machine learning baked into a lot

> of the things we use daily… but think LLMs like ChatGPT are notably

> different than tools that are making recommendations based on content

> you’ve created yourself.

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> Related: Has anyone heard about recent updates to TurnItIn that are

> flagging AI-generated content more aggressively than in the past? I knew

> this was coming, but hadn’t heard anything about a rollout.

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> Thanks in advance for my clunky post and questions!

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> Be well,

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> J

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