The impact of GPTs on academic writing is obvious and unavoidable. With regards to ethical considerations what are the top recommendations universities must adopt in dealing with the use of artificial intelligence enabled Generative Pre-trained Transformers (AI-enabled GPTs) in academic writing.

Our position is not to ban or even to restrict but to encourage ethical usage. Therefore, we propose the adjustment of university assignments and subsequent evaluation of such assignments to anticipate cohort use of AI-enabled GPTs.

If the university (accepts and) already anticipates use, and are proactive in developing student assignments around such expectations then the subsequent evaluation can be proportionately weighted and graded as per the ethical use exercised by the the student.

Do note that the notion of acceptance and anticipation must give coverage to a university fully understanding what are the complimentary and masking technologies that exists around AI-enabled GPTs (GPT0, HideGPT, Quillbot etc). Universities, in particular, digital nomad, and less digital savvy professors must avoid daring knowledge endowed digital native sometimes expert students in the game of 'catch me if you can'.

This is to be applied (somehow) also to academic writing that is not subject to grading, such as published academic work.

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