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☆ Opinion | We Need a New Word for ‘Plagiarism’
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-23 | by ( John Mcwhorter | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

They are boilerplate statements in books or academic papers whose reuse is only uncovered through the use of high-tech language searches. I, for one, would be quite OK with someone else lifting boilerplate statements from my work. In an alternative universe in which we had two words for “plagiarism,” that entire discussion could have been clearer and more efficient. There is no reason the new term has to be a formal one derived from Latin like “plagiarism” — or “duplicative language” for that matter. Perhaps we already have the term: “cutting and pasting” — as distinct from, rather than a form of, plagiarism.

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☆ Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff says AI can't be 'bad' like social media if it's going to be trusted
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-18 | by ( Jyoti Mann | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Marc Benioff called for greater public trust in AI in a panel at the World Economic Forum. The Salesforce CEO said he wants people to trust AI — unlike social media over the past decade. Winning public trust in AI will require greater regulation, Benioff said. Benioff also said that social media has been a "shit show," adding: "It's pretty bad — we don't want that in our AI industry." OpenAI CEO Sam Altman spoke at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

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☆ School is back, and so is ChatGPT
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-19 | by ( Samantha Murphy Kelly | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Since it was made available in late November, ChatGPT has been used to generate original essays, stories and song lyrics in response to user prompts. Students are already using AIAccording to a study conducted by higher education research group Intelligent.com, about 30% of college students used ChatGPT for schoolwork this past academic year and it was used most in English classes. Jules White, an associate professor of computer science at Vanderbilt University, believes professors should be explicit in the first few days of school about the course’s stance on using AI and that it should be included it in the syllabus. Courtesy Diane GayeskiDiane Gayeski, a professor of communications at Ithaca College, said she plans to incorporate ChatGPT and other tools in her fall curriculum, similar to her approach in the spring. Some schools are hiring outside experts to teach both faculty and students about how to use AI tools.

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☆ Professors want to 'ChatGPT-proof' assignments, and are returning to paper exams and requesting editing history to curb AI cheating
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-10 | by ( Aaron Mok | Associated Press | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

College professors are looking to "ChatGPT-proof" assignments to curb cheating. Some professors suggest returning to paper exams and asking students to show editing histories. Changes to assignments come as teachers debate the usage of generative AI in the classroom. Some professors suggest students show their work by including their editing history and drafts along with their completed assignments. The changes to school assignments come as teachers grapple with how to best integrate AI tools like ChatGPT into their classrooms.

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☆ Workers are hiding their AI productivity hacks from bosses. A Wharton professor says companies should get them to share.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-19 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A Wharton professor said employees are leveraging AI to increase their productivity at work. Companies should offer incentives to try and lure these workers out, the professor said. A Wharton professor has said companies should try to tempt employees to share how they're using AI to increase their personal productivity – rather than ban the tech and force them to hide it. He advised companies to try and lure these workers out, offering them incentives such as shorter days to share their discoveries. Mollick added that workers are already finding ways to get around bans on using AI at work, such as using their personal phones to access it.

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☆ Self-made millionaire: Here's how I'd use AI to make thousands of dollars a month in passive income—with less than $100
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-12 | by ( Matt Higgins | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

But I often wonder what I'd do if I went broke and had to start all over again. I was especially inspired after reading about a college student who launched an AI business making $64,000 a month. So, if I had to begin today with just $100 in my pocket, here's how I would use AI to generate thousands of dollars a month in passive income:Step 1: Identify a fast-moving trend. Take a day, away from any distractions, to learn about the latest time and money saving AI tools for core business functions. In 30 seconds, you can build out the website, optimize it for search, and even create AI generated marketing promotions.

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☆ An academic used ChatGPT to write a letter of recommendation that helped a student win a prestigious scholarship from Cambridge
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-24 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Matt Huculak, a university librarian, used ChatGPT to help write a letter of recommendation for a student. The "heartfelt" letter may have helped the student win a prestigious scholarship to Cambridge. A screenshot of the ChatGPT-generated reference letter Huculak used as a template of what not to write. After all, writing a reference letter, Huculak said, "is a tremendously difficult task" that he finds "anxiety producing." "I think committees will quickly learn to spot ChatGPT letters," Huculak said.

☆ Snap expands AI chatbot with ability to create images
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-19 | by ( Sheila Dang | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Snap's chatbot, called My AI, which can help users with everything from writing poems to searching for information, was built using startup OpenAI's ChatGPT technology. My AI is now available free to all Snapchat users and can be invoked to respond to questions in conversations between friends on Snapchat, Snap said on Wednesday. My AI's ability to respond to users with its own AI-generated images will be available first on Snapchat+, which has reached 3 million subscribers, Snap said. Snap analyzes conversations with My AI and has found that 99.5% of the chatbot's responses adhere to Snapchat's community guidelines, Spiegel said. The venture could also help Snap diversify beyond digital advertising, which currently makes up the majority of its revenue.

☆ My editor's note to the newsroom on AI: Let's think of it like a 'bicycle of the mind'
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-13 | by ( Nicholas Carlson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

Ask AI to make suggested edits to your writing to make it more readable and concise. Ask AI to make suggested edits to your writing to make it more readable and concise. Ask AI to summarize old news stories and suggest lessons that can be learned from them. For me, the really exciting thing about using generative AI is that I keep figuring out new ways to use it. Editors: It is already impossible for you to know if work produced by your colleagues was created using AI.

☆ A tech CEO who's rolling out AI across his company says it will give workers 'superpowers' because it's 'crazy powerful'
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-09 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Job van der Voort, CEO of HR-tech company Remote, says AI will give workers "superpowers." Van der Voort said he thinks AI won't replace workers but will instead transform their jobs. AI "gives you superpowers," van der Voort said. AI "is going to transform every single business going forward, I think without any exception," van der Voort said. But rather than replacing people's jobs completely, van der Voort said said that AI would instead cause a redeployment of the workforce.

☆ Pausing AI development would 'simply benefit China,' warns former Google CEO Eric Schmidt
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-07 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Eric Schmidt said a six-month pause on AI development would "simply benefit China." "The question is what is the right answer," Schmidt told the Financial Review. "I'm not in favour of a six-month pause because it will simply benefit China." Instead of a pause, leaders should instead collectively discuss appropriate guardrails "ASAP," Schmidt said. "I think today the government's response would be clumsy because there are very few people in government who understand this stuff," Schmidt told the Australian newspaper.

☆ A student used ChatGPT to get out of a $75 parking fine she felt she shouldn't have been issued
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-04 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

A student used AI to write a letter to her council to contest a parking fine. She felt she'd been wrongly fined and wanted to save time by using ChatGPT to write the letter. Generative AI platforms like ChatGPT are also being used to write news articles and novels. Generative AI platforms like these have been used to write news articles, shopping lists, code, and even novels. Houlton said wouldn't use ChatGPT to write assessments because it's not always accurate and universities are cracking down on AI-generated text.

☆ I'm a high school math and science teacher who uses ChatGPT, and it's made my job much easier
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-14 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Shannon Ahern, a high school math and science teacher, was afraid that ChatGPT would take her job. Here's how Ahern is using ChatGPT to make her job easier, as told to Insider's Aaron Mok. As a high school math and science teacher, I had a bit of an existential crisis over my job. Since then, I've asked ChatGPT to write lesson plans, generate exercise worksheets, and come up with quiz questions. Still, I understand why some teachers are hesitant about using ChatGPT.

☆ A computer engineering student is using ChatGPT to overcome learning challenges linked to her dyslexia
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-04 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

French college student Myriem Khal uses ChatGPT to overcome learning challenges linked to her dyslexia. Myriem Khal, a French computer engineering student with dyslexia, told Insider that she has used the buzzy AI chatbot to help her understand her course materials. "I have always needed to work harder than others, and I have always fought to be as bright as possible in my studies," Khal said. "The teacher was very technical," Khal said. Khal asked ChatGPT in French to explain technical concepts for her AI class to understand the material.

☆ I tried OpenAI's ChatGPT 2 years ago. I'm terrified by how far it's come and think it could change my job.
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-23 | by ( Emily Senkosky | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

I'm a writer who used GPT-3, an early version of OpenAI's viral chatbot, in 2021. Emily SenkoskyThis experience has given me some insight into what ChatGPT could mean for the future of the writing profession. If writers want ChatGPT to produce worthwhile work, they will need to give it large amounts of contextual data. When the internet becomes flooded with half-hearted AI writing, people working in editorial roles will need to set their writing apart with human touches. I think any future version of ChatGPT will need a human to fine-tune the final product.

☆ An IT director used ChatGPT for research after phone calls and Google didn't help, and said it 'completely blew my mind'
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-21 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

An IT director used ChatGPT to research vaping detectors and told the WSJ it "completely blew my mind." Critics have expressed concerns about the ethics of AI, including the risk of plagiarism and bias. "It completely blew my mind," Gomes told The Journal. But critics have expressed concerns about the ethics of AI, including worries that it could plagiarize material, develop bias, and even argue with users. Some schools and colleges are banning students from using ChatGPT or are otherwise changing the nature of their assignments to reflect the surge in use of the technology.

☆ ChatGPT owner launches 'imperfect' tool to detect AI-generated text
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-31 | by ( Krystal Hu | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

The AI classifier, a language model trained on the dataset of pairs of human-written and AI-written text on the same topic, aims to distinguish text that is written by AI. In its public beta mode, OpenAI acknowledges the detection tool is very unreliable on texts under 1,000 characters, and AI-written text can be edited to trick the classifier. “We recognize that identifying AI-written text has been an important point of discussion among educators, and equally important is recognizing the limits and impacts of AI generated text classifiers in the classroom." Others have created third-party detection tools including GPTZeroX to help educators detect AI-generated text. OpenAI said it is engaging with educators to discuss ChatGPT's capabilities and limitations, and will continue to work on the detection of AI-generated text.

☆ Generative AI is coming for the classroom, whether teachers like it or not. Here's why many in education think it should be embraced rather than shunned.
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-31 | by ( Madeline Renbarger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Fears of generative AI helping students cheat are rampant, and some school districts are banning it. Instead, educators should think about how generative AI can be used as a classroom learning tool. Insider spoke with multiple AI researchers and academics, startup founders, and education-nonprofit leaders to learn how they're approaching generative AI in the classroom. If used effectively, generative AI tools like ChatGPT can help students develop critical-thinking and problem-solving skills, which are crucial learning outcomes for most teachers. That way, students are actively engaged and wouldn't be able to use generative AI to complete a full assignment, he said.

☆ The Princeton student who built an app to detect ChatGPT plagiarism opposes banning the chatbot in schools
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-19 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The founder of an AI-plagiarism tool told NPR he opposes the ban of ChatGPT in schools. But that doesn't mean he supports banning ChatGPT in schools, he told NPR in an interview. The 22-year-old computer science and journalism student told NPR that it's impossible to prevent students from using ChatGPT. "It doesn't make sense that we go into that future blindly," Tian told NPR. "We're losing that individuality if we stop teaching writing at schools," Tian told NPR.

☆ New York City schools ban use of ChatGPT — becoming first US district to block AI technology as concern over cheating and plagiarism mounts
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-06 | by ( Bethany Biron | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The NYC Department of Education is banning the use of ChatGPT on its networks and devices. Educators around the country have raised concern over the use of ChatGPT to cheat and plagiarize essays. The ban, in the nation's largest school district, could help set precedent around the US. Educators across the country have said the technology has the potential to "blow up" entire writing curriculums and lead to "the end of high school English." "Are high school teachers going to want students using ChatGPT to write their history essays?

☆ Indigenous fashion designers, artisans challenge plagiarism on Mexico City runway
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-23 | by ( Aida Pelaez-Fernandez | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

MEXICO CITY, Nov 23 (Reuters) - Wrapped in colorful haute couture, artisans and indigenous designers took a Mexico City fashion event by storm, all while trying to carve out a sustainable future in an industry threatened by plagiarism, instability and lack of funds. World-renowned brands such as Ralph Lauren and Chinese fast-fashion company Shein have in recent months faced accusations of plagiarizing indigenous Mexican designs, threatening the country's ancient textile tradition. [1/10] Artisan Juana Bravo Lazaro from the Urupan indigenous community, attends the Original Mexican Textile Art meeting, in Mexico City, Mexico November 20, 2022. Plagiarism of ancient indigenous designs has drawn ire from Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. "They plagiarize designs from artisans and indigenous people from Hidalgo, Chiapas, Guerrero," he told a news conference last week.

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