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The infamous "homework help" site Chegg has filed a lawsuit against Google claiming that Google's AI summaries are stealing their traffic.

https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2025/02/27/chegg-sues-google-over-ai-summaries/

#Copyright #Chegg #Plagiarism #AI #ContractCheating

An Australian training college that specializes in real estate and finance has been ordered to close over allegations of widespread cheating.

https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2025/02/04/australian-training-college-ordered-to-close-over-cheating-allegations/

#Australia #Certification #Cheating #ContractCheating

Those of you that haven’t read Dying Inside might be struck by some of the outdated ideas (there’s some sexism and racism) but the blunt portrayal of what it might be like to be a telepath in a University setting is prescient and powerful and so relevant to our thoughts on Gen AI and the academy… #HigherEducation #HigherEd #ScienceFiction #ContractCheating #GenAI #AcademicMisconduct #cheating #telepathy

A university launched a sting operation to test contract cheaters. They got was a lesson in blackmail and the dangers of the industry.

https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2024/03/28/blackmail-and-the-contract-cheating-industry/

#Plagiarism #ContractCheating #Blackmail #AcademicIntegrity

Now they believe that simply removing some of my intellectual property is adequate. Note that claim “alleged” IP - but y’all gotta know I have receipts.

This is only the beginning.

#ContractCheating #EssayMill #IntellectualProperty #AcademicFraud #Theft #Profiteering #DavidVsGoliath

Ready to start into day 3 of the conference with Michael Draper presenting on the Recommendation CM/Rec (2022) of the Committee of MInisters to member States [of the Council of Europe] on countering Education Fraud

(Irene: Thank you for getting up in the morning to listen to a talk by a lawyer!)

Draper is one of the people responsible for championing the new criminal offense of #ContractCheating in the UK.

#ECEIA2023 #AcademicIntegrity

Now that contract cheating is forbidden in the UK (it is illegal to advertise such services and illegal to work with students in this manner, the Skills and Post-16 Education Bill was passed in 2022, https://educationhub.blog.gov.uk/2022/04/28/essay-mills-are-now-illegal-skills-minister-calls-on-internet-service-providers-to-crack-down-on-advertising/), the question is whether AI will put them completely out of business?

The answer is no, the companies still seem to be in business, suggesting that students use a VPN to access the "service"

#ECEIA2023 #AcademicIntegrity #ContractCheating

And this is just a weird story. Unexpected global fallout from AI ...

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For the past nine years, Collins, a 27-year-old freelance writer, has been making money by writing assignments for students in the U.S. — over 8,500 miles away from Nanyuki in central Kenya, where he lives. He is part of the “contract cheating” industry, known locally as simply “academic writing.” Collins writes college essays on topics including psychology, sociology, and economics. Occasionally, he is even granted direct access to college portals, allowing him to submit tests and assignments, participate in group discussions, and talk to professors using students’ identities. In 2022, he made between $900 and $1,200 a month from this work.

Lately, however, his earnings have dropped to $500–$800 a month. Collins links this to the meteoric rise of ChatGPT and other generative artificial intelligence tools.

https://restofworld.org/2023/chatgpt-taking-kenya-ghostwriters-jobs/

#ChatGPT #AI #AcademicWriting #ContractCheating

I am undertaking research into attitudes towards and perceptions of contract cheating, within UK-based higher education.

Below is a link to an anonymous survey, which takes around 5-10 minutes to complete. The survey can be taken by #Students or #Teachers / #Lecturers / #Professors / #Tutors / #Instructors or anybody who has taught in some capacity at a UK-based higher educational facility. It does not matter if you reside in the UK, just that you taught / studied at a UK-based institution, no matter how long ago.

This research is for my #MBA #Dissertation and therefore all responses will be extremely helpful.

Thank you in advance for you consideration and participation.

https://mmu.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_dcBGSIrUma85UV0

#Learning #LearningTechnology #ContractCheating #AcademicMisconduct #AcademicDishonesty #Cheating #EssayMills #PayingForWork #Plagiarism #Research #UK-based #HigherEducation

In our book, Fake Degrees and Fraudulent Credentials in Higher Education, Jamie Carmichael and I unpack the Ecosystem of Commercial Academic Fraud. We connect the dots between #ContractCheating #FakeDegrees #DiplomaMills #AdmissionsFraud and #PaperMills. #AcademicIntegrity  More details here: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-21796-8

A model depicting the Ecosystem of Commercial Academic Fraud. There are four overlapping circles with fraud at the centre. Each circle represents a different aspect of industrial academic cheating. The orange circle represents contract cheating. The blue circle represents scholarly paper mills. The green circle represents admissions fraud. The red circle represents degree mills. This model was developed by Sarah Elaine Eaton and Jamie Carmichael and appears in the introductory chapter of their book, “Fake Degrees and Fraudulent Credentials in Higher Education” (Springer, 2023).

News: Exclusive: OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 Per Hour to Make ChatGPT Less Toxic

Given what we know about the #ContractCheating industry, #AcademicIntegrity folks are unlikely to be surprised by this...

https://time.com/6247678/openai-chatgpt-kenya-workers/

Organized crime. Fraud. Counterfeiting. I had no idea when I started researching #AcademicIntegrity that I would end up partnering with two amazing women who would co-edit a book on #FakeDegrees and #FraudulentCredentials as we worked alongside FBI Special Agent (retired), Allen Ezell, other global experts with deep knowledge of the #FakeDegree industry, learning how it relates to #ContractCheating, #AdmissionsFraud, #PaperMills, but here we are.

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-21796-8

It was already an arms race before AI, not sure what is best to describe it now?

« Academics warn of ‘arms race’ in contract cheating » via SMH https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/academics-warn-of-arms-race-in-contract-cheating-20221122-p5c0a4.html #ContractCheating #uni #academics

'i don't think of this as cheating...it's not copying. it's not plagiarism. nobody else has this content. it's original content.'

#StudentWriting from the uni of canterbury magazine.

#ArtificialIntelligence #ContractCheating #AotearoaNZ

https://www.canta.co.nz/newsarticle/115524?newsfeedId=1453013

good work in the #AcademicIntegrity world, brought to you by folks like @CCGuerilla, @FourthLineMagic, and @Cathellis.

#AcademicMisconduct #ContractCheating #MakeItSomeonesJob

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/nov/27/the-push-and-pull-of-cheating-at-university-no-one-knows-what-cheating-is-any-more?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Very excited to be working with the incredible Prof. Phill Dawson to co-edit a special issue in Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education called 'Challenging Cheating'. We are looking for either empirical or conceptual articles that question many of the underlying assumptions of what is cheating, why students (or academics) cheat, and what we can do to address cheating. #cheating #contractcheating #academicintegrity #highereducation

Read more about the submission process at: https://blogs.deakin.edu.au/cradle/2022/11/14/call-for-papers-challenging-cheating/