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| title | tags | date | lastmod | draft | |||
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| Academic Integrity and AI |
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2024-09-14 | 2024-09-14 | true |
Recent studies reveal that the use of AI is becoming increasingly common in academic writings. On Google Scholar, and on arXiv; but most shockingly, on platforms like Elsevier's Science Direct (check the Introduction). Elsevier supposedly prides itself on its comprehensive review process, which ensures that its publications are of the highest quality. More generally, the academic profession insists that it possesses what I call integrity: rigor, attention to detail, and authority or credibility. But AI is casting light on a greater issue: does it?
What is integrity?
==specific aspects I can talk about in the framings==
Competing framings
I think there are two ways of framing the emergence of the problem.
1: Statistical (not dataset) bias and sample size
The first framing is simple proportionality. Journal submission numbers have increased rapidly in the past few years: atherosclerosis !Attachments/papers.png
I'm not interested in doing the statistical analysis (especially because it would probably require creating a quantitative analysis metric for integrity, which I super don't want to spend time on), but this is just one hypothesis.
==barriers to access broken by AI==
2: We've Always Done It This Way
And second, which I find more persuasive (but shocking), is the question: has it just always been like this?
==is the thought of academic integrity just a facade meant to preserve the barriers in the first reading? Detail requires (paid) time, intellectual rigor requires education, credibility requires experience and access to information...==
Further Reading
In my view, a critical component of academic or purportedly informative works is the establishment of authority/credibility in a way that's verifiable by other people. I have an incomplete Essays/plagiarism where I explore this facet of academic integrity.
I subscribe to a style of writing called "academish" voice on this site, documented by Ink and Switch. Pointing out all the ways that even this less-rigorous style is fundamentally incompatible with AI-generated text is left as an exercise for the reader.