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Understanding Academic Integrity

Scenario: Artificial Intelligence

TRANSCRIPT: As part of a class teaching the fundamentals of scholarly research, you need to write a literature review/environmental scan. This assignment evaluates your ability to analyze, understand, and summarize academic research. To do this, you must create original summaries of the scholarly articles you've gathered for the assignment. The articles are long and quite complicated, and you are not sure how to summarize the main ideas. You recall your friends talking about a text generating platform called ChatGPT and you decide to try it out. You type in a prompt “Summarize the following text:” and copy and paste the first article into ChatGPT. It then creates a perfect summary for you. You believe the risk of being caught is minimal because you have not copied from anywhere and the text is original. You proceed to scan the rest of the articles through ChatGPT and get the summaries for each article. You make a few minor changes to the text and submit your assignment.

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