plagiarism

CourseHero Watermarks, Why Doesn’t YorkU?

Piracy of professor-authored teaching material is rampant. I’ve written about it before. Students and teaching staff have uploaded my material to Course Hero and I’m not happy about it. In spite of requesting that they don’t do it, they still do it. I write explicit footnotes in my documents saying not to do it, and […]

“Mistakes are possible”

Last month I posted about why it’s important for my students to be careful when (not if!) they use AI chatbots like Bing / ChatGPT. Today, I turned on Bing and noticed this disclaimer: Frankly, that’s good to see. These chatbots are interesting and potentially useful tools, but one must be cautious when using them. […]