Work in Progress: High School Student Perspective on AI-based Plagiarism

In the Artificial Intelligence (AI) era, students can become more productive. However, maintaining academic integrity becomes more complicated: students could easily plagiarize AI-generated solutions. Several strategies can be applied to maintain academic integrity. However, it is important to understand students’ perspectives about AI-based plagiarism first. Many relevant studies have been conducted on higher education, but to our knowledge, none of them are focused on K12 education. This work-in-progress study reports the perspective of 99 K-12 students about AI-based plagiarism. We found that students were relatively aware of AI-based plagiarism, and the policies could be easily expanded from those of conventional plagiarism. Students needed to be explicitly informed that disguising and expanding AI-generated work was unacceptable for individual assessments that restrict the use of AI. It was also unacceptable to ask AI to fix a troublesome solution.