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![We emphasize that there are two victims of plagiarism: the original authors whose work is taken
without credit and the audience who is being deceived.
Plagiarism, at its most fundamental level, is a lie. It is the taking of works or ideas of
others and passing them off as your own, either directly or indirectly. The misdeed itself
is in the lie, the “I created this” when it is known to be untrue.
However, that lie isn’t being told to the original victim. It’s a lie about the victim, claiming that they didn’t create it or their contributions didn’t matter, but it’s not a lie to
them. Instead, it’s a lie to the audience, which is the second victim and the actual target
of the con.
Jonathan Bailey (2019b, n.p.)
When a ghost writer or essay mill is used, consent has been obtained by the original author (usually
in exchange for payment), but acceptability remains contingent on the social contract with the audience. Ghostwriting is usually acceptable because “[w]e all know that politicians don’t write their own
speeches and celebrities rarely write their own books” (Bailey 2019b). In contrast, press release plagiarism (Bailey 2019a) deceives the audience by presenting the work of a biased source as being that of
the (perceived to be unbiased) journalist. Academic integrity standards, enshrined in university rules
and scholarly journal policies, establish the unequivocal contract that students’ and researchers’ work
is solely their own. There is no debate that use of an essay mill constitutes violation of these policies.
Use of an LLM-based chatbot (recall Table 1) to complete an assignment, presented as student
work, is an affront to the ‘first victim’ as well as the ‘second victim’. This automated plagiarism goes
against the principles of scientific integrity, which serve as the basis of our teaching and academic practice (van Rooij 2022). LLM and chatbot use in the classroom means accepting that both students and
teachers can openly appropriate work that is not theirs, …](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vsyj5jtayxcq5dw5mtja4xtb/bafkreift4p2ecrsrdguj7pul4joh3yfnbpmtewcjjvoykd42hh6nhuezzu@jpeg)