Cat-and-Mouse Game: Students and universities using similar AI technologies for content

Last year I completed a Masters in AI and Ethics from Cambridge University. In my final term in late 2023, I wrote a dissertation, and as is customary, submitted it through a plagiarism detection tool, Turnitin.

While this was a practice followed year after year, this particular year there was some apprehension amongst the faculty and some students. ChatGPT had been launched a few months back and had taken the world by storm. Among the first people who woke up to its impact were academia and universities; they worried about how students could use this very powerful tool to write essays and term papers, and yes, dissertations.