‘But there is a difference between recognising AI use and proving its use. So I tried an experiment. … I received 122 paper submissions. Of those, the Trojan horse easily identified 33 AI-generated papers. I sent these stats to all the students and gave them the opportunity to admit to using AI before they were locked into failing the class. Another 14 outed themselves. In other words, nearly 39% of the submissions were at least partially written by AI.‘
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It's plagiarism with extra steps.
Or
It's plagiarism all the way down.
It's just plain ol' plagiarism, AI isn't doing anything new except lower the barrier to entry.
Plagiarism with extra layers may be more accurate. Before they would just copy a few sources or just wikipedia like the author says. Now they're using the plagiarism engine. It's built upon plagiarism, it is its lifeblood.
The most common form of plagiarism in highschool might have been just copying wikipedia, but certainly in college the most common version (prior to gpt) was copying the structure and form of the arguments but reworking the details and language used - which is what GPT does.
before that, was various sites have essays written, or had a preview of the essay subject you are about to write. so people copies it or just modify it slightly. like essay of a non-fiction book you have to write, is readily online in various sites prior to AI, either as a introduction paragraph or with the thesis, people just lift it off there.