GenAI use in writing increases the need to define plagiarism and how to police it in research manuscripts. Plagiarism policies typically cover verbatim plagiarism of original text and plagiarism of ideas. Verbatim plagiarism is becoming less prominent because GenAI can rephrase text, but plagiarism of ideas remains a major concern because GenAI can reproduce underlying ideas without proper credit. Misconduct in research harms trust, misrepresents scholarly origins, and discourages innovation. GenAI can improve readability and support idea exchange, but it can introduce factual and accuracy errors and has social and environmental impacts. Checking AI output is presented as the only reliable way to ensure correctness and reliability, and misconduct definitions should be revised to include idea-level plagiarism.
""It is fine and in fact helpful to use GenAI to increase the readability of writing and bounce ideas back and forth, but we know these tools frequently make mistakes of fact and accuracy and have enormous social and environmental impacts," said corresponding author Mohammad Hosseini, MA, PhD, assistant professor of Preventive Medicine in the Division of Biostatistics and Informatics. "Checking AI output is still the simple and only way to ensure content is correct and reliable.""
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