Policing plagiarism of ideas in generative AI-assisted research writing
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A new commentary written by researchers at Northwestern University and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that will publish May 18 in Nature Machine Intelligence weighs various options on how to define plagiarism in research manuscript writing in the ever-evolving world of GenAI.
The commentary argues plagiarism in manuscript writing harms the research environment by eroding trust among scientists, misrepresenting the origin and authenticity of scholarly work, and discouraging innovation and original inquiry.
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