Assisting academics to identify computer generated writing

In short

Telling machine-generated article writing from human writing was hard for academics new to such generators, the authors report from a case study, and a survey suggested that awareness training improved their judgement.

What it looked at

In a case study, academics were asked to separate automatically generated article writing from human writing, and a survey looked at a training session about the generators. The paper also explains how such writing is produced and discusses ways to reduce the integrity risks.

What it means for teaching

Awareness sessions on article generators may help staff judge suspect writing, going by one case study and survey.

Limits

Evidence comes from one case study and a survey of academics, and any gain from training is what the survey indicated.

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