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fromNature
5 days ago
Intellectual property law

Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done?

Intellectual property law
fromNature
5 days ago

Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done?

Artificial intelligence is generating non-existent academic references, leading to hallucinated citations in scholarly publications.
Education
fromFuturism
5 days ago

Students Renting Smart Glasses to Cheat on Tests

Smart glasses are being used for cheating in exams, with students renting them to gain an advantage.
Online Community Development
fromNature
6 days ago

A responsible authorship culture is needed - it is a collective responsibility

Responsible authorship culture is essential for scientific integrity, anchored in credit, accountability, and transparency.
#ai-detection
Marketing tech
fromWashington City Paper
6 days ago

Top 6 AI Detector Tools for Editors, Educators, and Content Teams

AI detection is essential for maintaining content integrity as patterns of AI-generated content become more prevalent and indistinguishable from human writing.
fromWashington City Paper
2 weeks ago
Typography

Understanding How AI Detection Tools Work In Modern Content Writing

AI detection tools analyze text to determine if it is human-written or AI-generated, ensuring clarity and authenticity in content.
Marketing tech
fromWashington City Paper
6 days ago

Top 6 AI Detector Tools for Editors, Educators, and Content Teams

AI detection is essential for maintaining content integrity as patterns of AI-generated content become more prevalent and indistinguishable from human writing.
Typography
fromWashington City Paper
2 weeks ago

Understanding How AI Detection Tools Work In Modern Content Writing

AI detection tools analyze text to determine if it is human-written or AI-generated, ensuring clarity and authenticity in content.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

Soon publishers won't stand a chance': literary world in struggle to detect AI-written books

An editor expressed concern, stating that the Shy Girl incident could happen to any publisher, highlighting the industry's need for vigilance regarding the authenticity of submissions.
Books
#higher-education
fromSearch Engine Roundtable
1 week ago

Block of Citations Tested Beneath AI Overview Summary

The format has ginormous link cards at the bottom of the AI summary, which include a thumbnail of no apparent value, the site name, favicon, description, and title.
Typography
Philosophy
fromThe New Yorker
2 weeks ago

How Bad Is Plagiarism, Really?

Originality is prized, but the distinction between influence and plagiarism is often unclear, especially with the rise of AI tools.
Typography
fromTODAY.com
1 week ago

Professor Shares 1 Word That's a Dead Giveaway for an AI-Written Paper

The word 'moreover' is a strong indicator of AI-generated writing in student papers.
#ai-ethics
fromNature
1 week ago
Intellectual property law

Major conference catches illicit AI use - and rejects hundreds of papers

Intellectual property law
fromNature
1 week ago

Major conference catches illicit AI use - and rejects hundreds of papers

ICML rejected 497 papers for violating AI-use policies in peer reviews, emphasizing the importance of trust in the research community.
Intellectual property law
fromFast Company
3 weeks ago

Grammarly's AI tool mimicked experts without their consent. Now it's being sued

Grammarly's Expert Review tool used real people's likenesses without consent to provide writing suggestions, prompting a class action lawsuit over unauthorized use of professional writers' identities and expertise.
fromFuturism
2 weeks ago

Novel Pulled From Shelves After Author Is Accused of Using AI

Hachette remains committed to protecting original creative expression and storytelling. The company requires all submissions to be original to the authors and that the authors disclose whether AI is used during the writing process.
Books
fromSearch Engine Roundtable
3 weeks ago

AI Mode Tests Ask About Element in Citations

Google AI mode has added an 'Ask about this' option above the sources where all URLs are displayed. Clicking on 'Ask about' here automatically pulled a new prompt into the search box.
Artificial intelligence
Philosophy
fromAbove the Law
2 weeks ago

Pigs Can Fly!: The Sins Of Legal Scholars - Above the Law

Academic integrity requires honest representation of facts and findings; misleading titles, fabricated evidence, and misrepresentation undermine scholarship and damage disciplines.
Science
fromNature
3 weeks ago

Keep calm and be transparent: advice from scientists who retracted their papers

Scientists who self-retract papers due to honest mistakes maintain citation rates and receive community support, suggesting shifting attitudes toward retractions as responsible scientific practice rather than career-damaging misconduct.
Higher education
fromFortune
1 week ago

What if I told you the 'AI slop' debate was over 100 years old? It used to be about 'ghostwriting' | Fortune

Vanderbilt University faced backlash for using ChatGPT to draft a message about community after a campus shooting.
fromInside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
1 month ago

Professor Accused of Murder by TikToker Awarded $10M

Rebecca Scofield, an associate professor of American history, sued Ashley Guillard, a Texas-based woman who for years said in TikTok videos that Scofield was responsible for the murders of four University of Idaho students in 2022. Guillard claimed to have psychic abilities and testified that she read tarot cards to try to solve the murders.
Law
Data science
fromNature
1 month ago

Hey ChatGPT, write me a fictional paper: these LLMs are willing to commit academic fraud

All major LLMs can facilitate academic fraud and junk science, though Claude models show the most resistance while Grok and early GPT versions perform worst.
Social media marketing
fromTechCrunch
1 month ago

X says it will suspend creators from revenue-sharing program for unlabeled AI posts of 'armed conflict' | TechCrunch

X will suspend creators from its revenue-sharing program for 90 days if they post undisclosed AI-generated videos of armed conflict, with permanent removal for repeat violations.
Intellectual property law
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

Thousands of authors publish empty' book in protest over AI using their work

Thousands of authors published an empty book protesting AI firms using their work without permission or payment, demanding government protection of creative copyright.
#immigration-enforcement
Intellectual property law
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

Unconscious Plagiarism: Fact or Fiction?

Unconscious plagiarism claims by famous artists may reflect genuine memory lapses rather than intentional theft, though distinguishing between carelessness and authentic unconscious appropriation remains difficult.
US news
fromBoston.com
1 month ago

Harvard professor on leave as college investigates ties to Jeffrey Epstein

Harvard placed mathematics professor Martin Nowak on paid leave pending investigation into his ties to Jeffrey Epstein, following DOJ document releases revealing a $6.5 million donation and island visit.
Books
fromLiterary Hub
1 month ago

How authors can protect themselves from scams, according to a book publicist.

Publishing scams are increasingly sophisticated, targeting authors with promises of media exposure and book sales through pay-to-play schemes that exploit authors' desires for visibility.
Higher education
fromNature
1 week ago

'Grade inflation' hits PhD students. What's behind the increase?

Graduate students' grades have increased over two decades without a corresponding improvement in work quality, indicating potential grade inflation.
fromNature
1 month ago

Five ways to spot when a paper is a fraud

A growing number of AI tools can detect fraudulent elements in papers, but they can be expensive to use. Such tools are probably better deployed by journal publishers rather than individual reviewers, says Elisabeth Bik, a science-integrity consultant in San Francisco, California, especially because feeding unpublished content into AI tools can compromise confidentiality and is generally frowned on during peer review.
Science
fromEntrepreneur
1 month ago

60% of Teens Say AI Cheating Is Normal at School

Nearly 60% of American teenagers say students at their school use AI chatbots to cheat "very often" or "somewhat often," according to a new Pew Research study. The researchers found that teens now view cheating with AI as "a regular feature of student life."
Education
#jeffrey-epstein
#generative-ai-in-education
fromwww.npr.org
1 month ago
Higher education

College students, professors are making their own AI rules. They don't always agree

Generative AI in education creates tension between convenience and skill development, forcing professors and students to navigate unclear boundaries around responsible use.
Higher education
fromwww.npr.org
1 month ago

College students, professors are making their own AI rules. They don't always agree

Generative AI in education creates tension between convenience and skill development, forcing professors and students to navigate unclear boundaries around responsible use.
US news
fromAbove the Law
1 month ago

Law Professor Arrested On 50 Counts In Child Sexual Abuse Materials Case - Above the Law

A Barry University law professor, Glen‑Peter Ahlers, was arrested on 50 counts of unlawful possession of materials depicting the sexual performance of a child and held on $100,000 bond.
fromNature
2 months ago

When two years of academic work vanished with a single click

Within a couple of years of ChatGPT coming out, I had come to rely on the artificial-intelligence tool, for my work as a professor of plant sciences at the University of Cologne in Germany. Having signed up for OpenAI's subscription plan, ChatGPT Plus, I used it as an assistant every day - to write e-mails, draft course descriptions, structure grant applications, revise publications, prepare lectures, create exams and analyse student responses, and even as an interactive tool as part of my teaching.
Privacy technologies
fromInside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
3 weeks ago

How Libraries Shape AI Literacy on Campus

Librarians have been actively collaborating and talking about it almost every day, whether it's creating tutorials and digital learning objectives or thinking about the conversations to have with instructors. It can feel like cognitive dissonance to be actively working with AI on a regular basis and also saying we're constantly thinking about the harms and the biases.
Higher education
National Basketball Association
fromDefector
2 months ago

NCAA Learns The Legal Consequences Of Making Shit Up As You Go Along | Defector

The NCAA's inconsistent eligibility rules led a judge to grant temporary reinstatement to former Alabama center Charles Bediako after a successful legal challenge.
fromThe Wire Magazine - Adventures In Modern Music
2 months ago

Authorship under automation - The Wire

On 13 January 2026, Bandcamp published "Keeping Bandcamp Human", declaring that "music and audio that is generated wholly or in substantial part by AI is not permitted on Bandcamp", alongside a strict prohibition on AI-enabled impersonation of other artists or styles. The post invites users to report releases that appear to rely heavily on generative tools, and it explicitly reserves the right to remove music "on suspicion of being AI-generated".
Music
Software development
fromNature
2 months ago

Is this journal legitimate? This tool can help you decide

Aletheia-Probe aggregates multiple databases to help researchers evaluate and avoid predatory journals and conferences.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
2 months ago

A Video Game Lets You Take Back Looted Artifacts

A South African indie studio created Relooted, a heist game where players recover African artifacts from Western museums, reframing play, memory, and restitution.
fromInside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
2 months ago

Researchers May Be Forced to Rely on an Obscure Court

A majority of justices say this 16-judge court likely has jurisdiction over lawsuits regarding thousands of National Institutes of Health federal research grants that the Trump administration has tried to terminate, as well as other fights concerning canceled grants. If the Supreme Court sticks by its current thinking in final rulings, the Court of Federal Claims could be handling fights over countless grants that the Trump administration and future higher ed-targeting presidencies may try to cancel in the future.
Law
fromNature
1 month ago

What can I do if my idea has been plagiarized?

A few years ago, I put together what I felt was a truly innovative concept, which I presented in a conference poster at an international meeting in my field. After the presentation, I spoke to another early-career scientist about my work and how it might apply to their findings. Two years later, they scooped me by publishing a preprint paper that presented my idea, with many of the same verbal formulations and an identical flow of ideas, without any acknowledgement or attribution to my work.
Intellectual property law
Education
fromwww.independent.co.uk
1 month ago

Teacher banned after lying about graduating from Cambridge

A teacher was banned indefinitely after fabricating documents, lying about a Cambridge Master's, falsifying age and magistrate status, prompting investigation and regulatory referral.
US politics
fromLos Angeles Times
2 months ago

CSU faculty settle with university on disclosure of personal data to federal investigators

CSU must notify employees before complying with subpoenas seeking personal identifying information, unless notification is prohibited by law.
Science
fromNature
2 months ago

Critical social media posts linked to retractions of scientific papers

Critical posts on X can serve as early warnings of problematic scientific articles and higher retraction risk when negative sentiment or red-flag words appear.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Cambridge university accused of obfuscation' over arms investment

The focus of Monday's discussions will be the university's endowment fund, worth about 4.2bn. The fund was set up to ensure the organisation's long-term financial security and is managed by the University of Cambridge Investment Management Limited (UCIM), a private company owned by the university. The company operates as a fund of funds a complex financial structure that means its money is spread across a wide range of sectors and overseen by an investment manager.
Education
Intellectual property law
fromFuturism
2 months ago

Researchers Just Found Something That Could Shake the AI Industry to Its Core

A Stanford–Yale study finds major LLMs reproduce copyrighted works verbatim, contradicting claims that models merely learn rather than copy training data.
fromIPWatchdog.com | Patents & Intellectual Property Law
1 month ago

AI and Copyright: How Lessons from Litigation Can Pave the Way to Licensing

As the AI revolution accelerates and continues to reshape traditional business models, it has triggered a cascade of new legal, regulatory and policy challenges. At the forefront of these emerging issues are a growing number of high-stakes legal battles between content creators and major Generative AI (GenAI) companies behind large language models (LLMs). This article examines key legal themes and critical questions arising from recent developments at the intersection of AI and Copyright law.
Intellectual property law
#academic-freedom
Higher education
fromNature
1 month ago

China to punish universities that fail to sanction research misconduct

China will penalize universities that fail to investigate or sanction researchers involved in serious research misconduct.
Higher education
fromIndependent
2 months ago

Student who alleged assault loses case against university over resitting of exams

High Court dismissed a student's lawsuit over denied exam resits after she was seriously assaulted and awarded court costs against her.
fromInside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
1 month ago

UNC Admin Can Now, Officially, Secretly Record Faculty

According to the policy, administrators may, with the provost and general counsel's written permission, record classes or access existing recordings without telling faculty in order to "gather evidence in connection with an investigation into alleged violations of university policy" and "for any other lawful purpose, when authorized in writing by the provost and the office of university counsel, who will consult with the chair of the faculty."
Higher education
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