Dispatches from the Ivory Tower

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Apr 20, 20264 min

Plagiarism Declines Despite AI. Academicians Puzzled.

University of Western Australia researchers tracking student plagiarism since 2004 find rates have fallen from over 80 percent to 57 percent by 2024, even as AI tools became widely available. Most AI-assisted copying happens knowingly, not by accident, and AI detectors don't appear to be the reason rates dropped.

Apr 20, 20263 min

Professors Deploy Honor Codes Against Unstoppable Machine. Outcomes Mixed.

A Georgia State administrator fed an AI detector her own pre-ChatGPT dissertation and watched it get flagged as 39 percent machine-written. Inside Higher Ed's verdict: honor codes and detection software are theater, and the real fix was better course design all along.