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What is next for essay mills in the age of AI? from Plagiarism Today

This is actually from August last year but it seems to have held up pretty well. Bailey provides a solid outline of how contract cheating ‘services’ have been impacted by GenAI tools such as ChatGPT and what their likely next moves would be. In short, more aggressive marketing, and using GenAI to do the work they used to pay for. The only thing they seem to have missed is an uptick in the way that these businesses are getting more violently threatening of students and academic integrity workers.

GenAI Detection Tools, Adversarial Techniques and Implications for Inclusivity in Higher Education from Computers and Society

I have shared my thoughts on the GenAI detection tool market numerous times (it’s dangerous nonsense) but I thought I would share yet another study if you want some solid evidence to share with someone looking for this kind of solution. Perkins et al., from British University Vietnam and James Cook University Singapore show that already poor accuracy rates (39.5%) are even weaker when basic detection evasion techniques are employed (17.4%). Tools tested included Turnitin AI Detect, GPTZero, ZeroGPT and Copyleaks, among others.

Universal Design for Learning Symposium 12th June, RMIT Melbourne from ADCET

UDL principles (no, not dodgy G&Ts in a can) offer sensible approaches to making online learning better for everyone through accessibility. The Australian Disability Clearinghouse on Education and Training is running an event ($200 in person - earlybird 29/5, $80 online) to share good practice in this space. They are also calling for presentations - due 13th May.

Udio just dropped and it's like Sora for music from Twitter

I will admit, I had to look up Sora because there are too many GenAI tools to keep track of - it is OpenAI’s upcoming text to video tool. I’m not sure why you would compare a text to music tool to a text to video tool, other than being cool, but that’s where we are. Anyway Udio looks set to do to musicians what MidJourney and all the other tools have done to photographers and artists. It allows users to generate perfectly genuine sounding 30 second songs (extendible) and use your own lyrics if you so choose. This twitter thread showcases some of versatility. The tool is currently free - be warned that it is a time suck.