Paraphrase Practice by Alison Malcolm-Smith

These days, computer- and AI-assisted writing is already deeply embedded into practices that students already use. Page 1396

amm39 — 2023-11-06 17:05:36 UTC

But students discovered that this was not easy at all. Most reported (87%) that it became far more complicated than just writing the paper themselves. (Fyfe, 2023 p.1399)

2023-11-07 12:31:18 UTC

Immediately confronted with its limitations, students also discovered GPT-2’s capacity to fabricate information, including plausible-sounding false statements and even quotes from non-existent experts. (Fyfe, 2023, p.1399)

2023-11-07 12:38:30 UTC

Occasionally, it did more than pump out plausible text: its outputs could contain useful ideas. (Fyfe, 2023, p.1400)

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They faced a tradeoff: they could find more outputs matching their tone or style if they cared less about the content.

2023-11-07 16:18:01 UTC

Collectively, my class did not conclude one way or another that writing with AI was tantamount to plagiarism.

2023-11-08 10:47:22 UTC

But students discovered that this was not easy at all. Most reported (87%) that it became far more complicated than just writing the paper themselves.

2023-11-09 13:15:40 UTC

When writing with AI becomes more like the assembly and editing of texts, we change the role of author to something more like an editor, curator, or mediator.

2023-11-09 13:50:46 UTC

Inviting students to openly vs clandestinely use AI may have shaped their responses to the assignment, but removing the threat of plagiarism opens participation in new ways and to writers of diverse backgrounds (Fyfe, 2023).

2023-11-09 21:17:00 UTC

Immediately confronted with its limitations, students also discovered GPT-2’s capacity to fabricate information, including plausible-sounding false statements and even quotes from non-existent experts. (Fyfe, 2023, p.1399)

2023-11-09 23:02:54 UTC

Moreover, GPT-2's has a capacity to produce inaccurate information which may include untruthful statements and even unreal quotes made by experts, which was figured out by students.(Fyfe, 2023, p.1399)