Contract cheating article generators are out there

TEQSA Chief Commissioner Peter Coaldrake warns HE providers that contract cheating services are selling content created by AI (CMM March 14).

Which is hard to identify, as El-Sayed Abd-Elaal, Sithara H. P. W. Gamage and Julie E Mills warn in a new paper for the European Journal of Engineering Education.

Copy created by an automatic article generator, “cannot be easily detected and even if they are detected, can be hard to prove.”

However they find that training can help with identification with artificial student work.

Looks worth reading, by those who can – it’s behind the publisher’s paywall.