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The Growth of AI in Plagiarism Detection

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Earlier today, the Israeli-based plagiarism detection service Copyleaks announced a new $6 million round of funding to help them further develop their product. Simply put, plagiarism detection is changing, with multiple groups seeking to make it smarter and useful in a larger number of cases. The Need for Smart Plagiarism Detection.

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Plagiarism as a Social Norm

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Why is it acceptable for Carolyn Keene to be a pseudonym for over a dozen authors penning Nancy Drew stories, but not ok for Cristiane Serruya to use ghostwriters when producing books with her name (outside the fact the books were plagiarized from other sources). The answer is that plagiarism is complicated.

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5 Things Students Need to Know About Plagiarism in 2022

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1 As we discussed earlier this month , the 2022 school year is shaping up to be a very interesting one when it comes to plagiarism and other issues of academic integrity. In short, the landscape of academic plagiarism is changing and students are caught in the middle of those shifts. 2: Avoid Free Plagiarism Checkers.

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Plagiarism and Academic Integrity in the 2022 School Year

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1: New Tools to Detect Contract Cheating. In many ways, the fight to detect plagiarism has shifted drastically over the past decade. Services such as Turnitin and Unicheck have made it much more difficult to get away with copy and paste plagiarism. As such, expect to see rapid growth for tools to address this issue.

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The Streamlabs (SLOBS) Plagiarism Scandal

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It was hot on the heels of a very different kind of copying scandal, one that involved Streamlabs announcing the launch of a new product using content copied and pasted from one of their biggest competitors. Hey, can I copy your homework? ? Yeah, just change it up a bit so it’s not obvious you copied. This is our fault.

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Peter Gleeson Leaves News Corp Following Plagiarism Scandal

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In Australia, long-time conservative commentator Peter Gleeson has left News Corp following a series of plagiarism allegations. . However, shortly after publication, another UK journalist, Josh Bavas, noticed that several paragraphs of one of the articles were copied verbatim from his earlier work without any citation.

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How Amazon is Punishing Victims of Piracy

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Authors have been reporting that Amazon has been pulling their books because of pirated copies that allegedly breaking an exclusivity clause. The post How Amazon is Punishing Victims of Piracy appeared first on Plagiarism Today.