Artificial Intelligence and Academic Integrity

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The posts below cover various topics on the emergence of Artificial Intelligence in the higher education space and classroom.  

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Comparing AI Detection Tools: One Instructor’s Experience

Comparison of different programs that claim to detect AI-generated text The post below was written by Dr. Ellie Andrews, an instructor in the Department of Anthropology and Geography. In this piece, Dr. Andrews shares her experience trying to verify authentic student writing in the two large section courses she taught in the spring of 2023. She shares the pedagogical challenges she faced creating AI-resistant assignments and the varying results she discovered while trying to use AI detection tools available to instructors on the internet. Thank you to Dr. Andrews for sharing this work. Her bio can be found at the

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Why you can’t find Turnitin’s AI Writing Detection tool

What happened? You may have noticed colleagues at other institutions discussing Turnitin’s new AI Writing Detection tool. However, when you access your Turnitin similarity reports in Canvas, you won’t find it. Why?    In the weeks leading up to Turnitin’s release of the new tool, I joined colleagues from other offices to discuss the new tool and its capabilities. As those discussions progressed, concerns arose that led the group to recommend a pause for the rollout of Turnitin’s product. It is important to note that CSU joined other Unizin institutions in asking to join Turnitin’s “suppression list.”    The concerns

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Tools You Can Use Right Now

The very first question faculty members ask me when they learn about ChatGPT is whether or not there are any tools available that can reveal if a text was created by an AI engine. A week ago, I released this video on GPTZero:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKdrVdS1rQ4   In just one week, this area of the issue has seen significant innovation and change. Not only has GPTZero undergone a notable streamlining and redesign, but OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, released its own.    You can access them here: OpenAI “Text Classifier” (LINK) GPTZero (LINK)   However, these programs have serious limitations and I

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Comparing AI Detection Tools: One Instructor’s Experience

Comparison of different programs that claim to detect AI-generated text The post below was written by Dr. Ellie Andrews, an instructor in the Department of Anthropology and Geography. In this piece, Dr. Andrews shares her experience trying to verify authentic student writing in the two large section courses she taught in the spring of 2023. She shares the pedagogical challenges she faced creating AI-resistant assignments and the varying results she discovered while trying to use AI detection tools available to instructors on the internet. Thank you to Dr. Andrews for sharing this work. Her bio can be found at the

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Why you can’t find Turnitin’s AI Writing Detection tool

What happened? You may have noticed colleagues at other institutions discussing Turnitin’s new AI Writing Detection tool. However, when you access your Turnitin similarity reports in Canvas, you won’t find it. Why?    In the weeks leading up to Turnitin’s release of the new tool, I joined colleagues from other offices to discuss the new tool and its capabilities. As those discussions progressed, concerns arose that led the group to recommend a pause for the rollout of Turnitin’s product. It is important to note that CSU joined other Unizin institutions in asking to join Turnitin’s “suppression list.”    The concerns

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Tools You Can Use Right Now

The very first question faculty members ask me when they learn about ChatGPT is whether or not there are any tools available that can reveal if a text was created by an AI engine. A week ago, I released this video on GPTZero:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKdrVdS1rQ4   In just one week, this area of the issue has seen significant innovation and change. Not only has GPTZero undergone a notable streamlining and redesign, but OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, released its own.    You can access them here: OpenAI “Text Classifier” (LINK) GPTZero (LINK)   However, these programs have serious limitations and I

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An Introduction to ChatGPT

What is it? Put simply, ChatGPT is a software engine that responds to a written prompt in a human-like manner. It creates all manner of writing: essays, press releases, sonnets, stock prospectuses, even fiction. In case you aren’t aware of this program and what it can do, I’d recommend this piece from the Associated Press and this piece from the New York Times. How good is it? That is up for debate. Some (as in the New York Times article) describe the quality as college-level, while others who have interacted with it believe the quality is discernibly mediocre. This is

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What should a syllabus statement on AI look like?

While it is unusual for faculty to update a course syllabus mid-semester, the unprecedented impacts of ChatGPT and AI technology have many looking for ways to provide more guidance for their students. In this post, I’d like to share different versions of what syllabi statements on ChatGPT and AI-generated material can look like.   These can take different approaches. I would describe the basic approaches in the following categories: the prohibitive statement, the use-with-permission statement, and the abdication statement. The Prohibitive Statement:  Here is one such example, created by Virginia Chaffee, Senior Instructor in the CSU English Department and University Writing

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It’s Time to Talk to Your Students about ChatGPT

If you haven’t already, it is now time to have a frank discussion with your students about ChatGPT and AI-assisted writing. Why now?  Users (surely including our students) are signing up for ChatGPT at staggering rates. Consider this graphic provided by Statista.  In addition, two weeks ago, it hit over 100 million users. According to Forbes (LINK), one study claims that ChatGPT is the “fastest growing consumer internet application in history.” Simply put, our students are already going there. In addition, with recent developments that incorporate ChatGPT into Microsoft’s Bing search engine (LINK) AND third-party add-ins that incorporate it into

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Resources

What is Chat GPT

Using GPTZero

Contact Info

Joseph Brown

Joseph Brown

Director, Academic Integrity

Contact

Phone: 970-491-2898

Email: Joe.Brown@colostate.edu