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Questions on the use, implications, ethics, legality, etc. of generative AI (such as ChatGPT) in academia. Do NOT use for questions about researching, understanding, or operating generative AI.

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I am tryin to support graduate students in documenting their use of AI tools for data science capstone projects. I know to include in the Methods or Acknowledgements section, but I need to provide ...
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I feel strongly about not using generative AI in writing my thesis. Therefore, I would like to add a statement to my thesis making it crystal clear that generative AI was not used in any form. ...
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I am a PhD student in mathematics, and I have a number of first-author papers. In these papers, the majority of the work was done by me, and I completed 70% of the writing, with my supervisor or ...
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I have a number of graduate students/trainees in my group that use LLMs for basically all work and non-work items. For example, I have a postdoc who sent me an initial draft of a grant proposal and it ...
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I'm currently doing an applied maths PhD and I've started using GPT5 to generate frontend code such as data visualisation and user input. I also have many mathematical ideas and I use ChatGPT to ...
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What can be said about inserting photo-realistic AI generated images in serious research papers if the purpose of the image is to illustrate an abstract concept or key idea with a real world object? ...
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To cut a long story short, I placed too much emphasis on ChatGPT's help and now I'm completely scattered and don't know what to do next. Since I was running out of time to write my paper, I thought it ...
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I am a student in the humanities. I have written some research papers myself and to be honest, I've also used AI as a tool in some of them. I generally use AI to debate some of the ideas i have when I ...
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Suppose I want to do a large- (or medium-)scale literature synthesis (e.g. see Keck et al 2025 or Mitchell et al 2025) by finding a set of PDFs that match my scope of interest and feeding them to a ...
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I am attempting to reconstruct and formalise some technical ideas from first principles, both as a learning exercise and potentially as a basis for a more rigorous and self-contained exposition than ...
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I imagine many researchers are now using AI systems in various ways. My question is in regards to the ethics surrounding this. If a researcher submits a paper for publication and was aided by AI, ...
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Writing and Literature teacher here. In response to students' irresponsible use of LLMs, I have shifted away from relying heavily on longer research essays for assessment. (If I wanted to know what ...
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I’m doing extensive research each time because I need to synthesize many documents (articles, reports, etc), and I’m ready to invest in an AI tool that can help me with research. I waste most of my ...
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I am a sophomore in high school and a senior editor of my school's Journal of Biology. We're a pretty big science school so the club has a lot of members. As senior editor, I'm responsible for editing,...
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I wrote a short essay for a creative arts class. When I submitted it through Turnitin, it came back flagged for high AI use. Other detectors didn’t flag it nearly as high, so I thought I’d be fine. ...
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