The Verkhovna Rada passes in the first reading a bill on academic integrity — there will be penalties for writing scientific papers with artificial intelligence and plagiarism in scientific activities.
According to the Judicial and Legal Newspaper, persons who have plagiarized their works may be offered to voluntarily renounce the awarded academic degree or academic title.
For students, it is established that each learning task must be completed independentlyexcept when its performance involves the participation of several persons or the rules for performing the relevant tasks allow receiving assistance from other persons, using auxiliary materials and tools, the Internet, etc.
It is determined that a person may not be considered an author of an academic work if it is formed (generated) at the request of a person by a computer program in an automatic mode.
If parts generated by computer programs are used in an academic work, this fact must be indicated by the author with an indication of the method of generation or a link to the relevant computer program or its description.
Each educational institution, research institution is obliged to have a system of ensuring academic integrity defined by its internal acts.
What awaits violators?
- If the author reveals signs of violation of academic integrity in an academic work submitted for publication, the publisher has the right to refuse to publish this academic work and to notify the head of the institution where the author works of the violation of academic integrity.
- A published academic work that reveals a violation of academic integrity shall be withdrawn by the publisher with the simultaneous publication of the reasons for its withdrawal.
- From the moment of withdrawal, an academic work is not considered published and is not taken into account when assessing the author’s academic performance.
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