In the education system, we are challenged by ChatGPT's new opportunities. Students use it extensively in their written work for idea generation and auxiliary tools. However, some use it uncritically and submit texts written by artificial intelligence as their work. It is very difficult for teachers to figure out when ChatGPT has taken over the writing for the student. In particular, it is a great challenge when assessing written work from new students when you do not know their writing style from previous work in advance.
How is plagiarism defined?
Can ChatGPT be categorized as plagiarism? The Research Portal gives the following interpretation of what plagiarism is:
Plagiarism means that you take something others have created and publish it in a way that gives others the impression that you have created it yourself.
(Plagiarism - forskerportalen.dk)
The challenge here is that texts written by ChatGPT are not found anywhere else. For example, our normal control program, Ouriginal, will never have a chance to find texts written by AI because they only look at texts from previous assignments or content on the web. All we can see is the text the students have submitted, and it's a delicate balance: When and to what extent is it okay to use AI as an assistive tool?
