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Ethical Academic Writing with AI and Notes

Published about 1 year ago • 1 min read

Dear Scholar,

One of the most time-consuming tasks for an academic is the writing of publications. Generative AI promises to write for you - but is this ethical? Are the results reliable? There are currently many unknowns.

A previous blog post explored what constitutes plagiarism and whether AI writing is detectable. In this week's post, I want to present an ethical way of using AI with your notes to write a manuscript in record time.

The key idea here is to use AI to create a rough first draft from a note collection, building the manuscript paragraph by paragraph. Starting from that draft, you write the paper and finally use AI to polish the last bits. The result is a manuscript that is mainly written by you, not plagiarized (unintentionally via AI) but, at the same time, completed many times faster than starting from a blank page.

One of the main tools we will use is ChatGPT's novel canvas feature. Check out this tutorial on ChatGPT's Canvas if you missed it.

Wishing you a wonderful weekend,
​
Ilya Shabanov, The Effortless Academic​

ps. The next webinar will be academic writing and will be announced next week.

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