If you have ‘40 000 words of your own original materials’ to hand you can always use them to, uh, write your own work. It’s not just that I don’t want CoPilot to write my emails or summarise documents for me or any of the other nonsense (I want it to leave me alone). If it’s your ‘extensive base of knowledge’ (what are these words!): you can summarise it yourself. That’s hard sometimes, sure; it’s also fun. And it’s how ideas happen.
Sydney academic used AI to write SMH opinion piece urging students to avoid using tech to ‘cut corners’ - The Guardian report on Western Sydney’s Pro Vice Chancellor for Quality and Integrity (I know) and her, subsequently withdrawn, CoPiloted _Sydney Morning Herald _ column.
There are basic, foundational, fundamental questions about quality and integrity raised in this article and in the responses quoted in it.