Plagiarism in AI empowered world

The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has revolutionized many aspects of education and research, but it has also introduced new challenges, including the problem of students using AI to create assignments that cannot be detected by plagiarism checkers. The proliferation of AI tools that can generate original-sounding text has made it easier for students to pass off the work of others as their own, making it more difficult for educators to identify and prevent plagiarism. This paper identifies the problem of plagiarism in the AI empowered world by comparing ChatGPT written assignments for biology and computer science. We have tested the plagiarism of those assignments in freely available tools online as well as in trusted and widely used Turnitin. We show that although the original ChatGPT written assignments sometimes result in relatively high plagiarism level, adding just one additional step of paraphrasing the work with free AI tools online significantly reduces the detected plagiarism with similarity levels laying within the acceptable range. This suggests that educational facilities should rethink of how they are assessing students’ knowledge.