Can ChatGPT be used in educational processes in schools and universities, but in such a way that this is ethical and compatible with the principles of respect for copyright and the educational and other goals of the educational system institutions?
The development of artificial intelligence, including considering one of the many manifestations of its applications made available on the Internet such as ChatGPT, is both interpreted as a developmental opportunity and also as threats and new risks in the context of education more broadly. Already, data are emerging confirming that ChatGPT can help pass university examinations within specific courses and written examination formulas. ChatGPT writes creative essays for pupils and students, helps with book writing to generate summaries of various studies and a wide variety of texts. Consequently, ChatGPT is a major challenge in the education system. A particularly important issue is the possibility of using this tool for the automated process of generating the texts of theses with which students will pass their subjects as part of their course of study, and for generating the texts of theses 'written' by students as part of their final theses. A particularly key issue is the possible ignoring of the issue of reliable demonstration of source publications in credit and degree theses. This is because the ChatGPT also does not provide a complete list of all sources, including scientific publications, journal articles, books, etc., from which it has used, from which it has taken a certain amount of content, from which it has been inspired, from which it has taken data, etc. In addition, a particularly important challenge for education at the level of studies is the issue of the currently limited possibilities of verification by anti-plagiarism programmes of the aforementioned issue of verification of reliable use of sources, other publications and source materials by a student while writing his/her diploma thesis, including his/her bachelor's, master's, doctoral or habilitation thesis. It is therefore necessary to improve computerised platforms and anti-plagiarism programmes so that they are capable of verifying the reliability of a student's writing of a specific thesis. Within the scope of the examined reliability mentioned above, the issues of proper use of publications and source materials, proper use, i.e. without the use of plagiarism and with full indication of texts, publications and source materials in footnotes, are important. In this connection it is also necessary to appropriately update the procedures for verification of diploma theses by supervisors, i.e. research and teaching staff supervising the process of writing a diploma thesis by a student. The said appropriate updating of procedures should in particular take into account the issue of ethics of conducting research and writing the diploma thesis by the student, but also ethics in the context of the process of supervising by scientific and didactic employees the issue of writing the diploma thesis by the student. In this connection it is also necessary to carry out an appropriate update of normative provisions, including both the legal regulations functioning at the national level and also in the scope of internal, functioning in individual universities and schools regulatory normative provisions, regulations defining principles and standards of reliable writing of credit and diploma theses by students and the process of control and supervision of the issue of writing the diploma thesis by scientific and didactic employees.
In view of the above, I address the following question to the esteemed community of scientists and researchers:
Can ChatGPT be used in educational processes in schools and universities, but in such a way that this is ethical and compatible with the principles of respect for copyright and the educational and other goals of the educational system institutions?
What are the ethical and copyright-compliant uses of ChatGPT in educational processes?
What is your opinion on this subject?
What is your opinion on this subject?
Please respond,
I invite you all to discuss,
Thank you very much,
Best regards,
Dariusz Prokopowicz
Giving correct acknowledgment to the source of the content is crucial if ChatGPT is used to create content that is published or shared with others.
I agree these are very important issues. It is interesting to me that University of Sydney has dedicated a webpage to AI but not mentioned the topics or copyright and ethics.
https://www.sydney.edu.au/study/why-choose-sydney/student-life/student-news/2023/02/24/chatgpt-and-ai-embracing-the-future-of-education.html#:~:text=In%20line%20with%20our%20academic,vulnerable%20to%20accusations%20of%20cheating.
https://www.enago.com/thesis-editing/blog/ethical-considerations-of-letting-professors-use-chatgpt-for-lectures-and-exams
Dariusz Prokopowicz . I believe, using chatgpt can be used in educational processes implemented in school by properly declaring them as part of the sources. By showing the prompts made by the person using it, it somehow acknoledges the fact that he or she is not the sole owner of the idea. Let's accept the fact that using chatbots is inevitable nowadays as their popularity has already reach its entire potential. Preventing it from being used in the academe is of no use because not all schools are equipped with high end security to at least lessen if not to stop the use of these chatbots so might as well acknowledge it and while they are on it, the academe can then strengthen trhe parameter of academic integrity when it comes to using chatgpt for research or any academic paper worl\ks for that matter
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