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ChatGPT and large language models in academia: opportunities and challenges
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The introduction of large language models (LLMs) that allow iterative “chat” in late 2022 is a paradigm shift that enables generation of text often indistinguishable from that written by humans. LLM-based chatbots have immense potential to improve academic work efficiency, but the ethical implications of their fair use and inherent bias must be considered. In this editorial, we discuss this technology from the academic’s perspective with regard to its limitations and utility for academic writing, education, and programming. We end with our stance with regard to using LLMs and chatbots in academia, which is summarized as (1) we must find ways to effectively use them, (2) their use does not constitute plagiarism (although they may produce plagiarized text), (3) we must quantify their bias, (4) users must be cautious of their poor accuracy, and (5) the future is bright for their application to research and as an academic tool.
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This editorial argues that LLM-based chatbots such as ChatGPT should be embraced in academia for writing, education, and programming, while cautioning about bias, hallucination, and poor accuracy. The authors conclude that LLM use does not constitute plagiarism, that bias metrics are needed, and that users remain responsible for validating outputs.
Key findings
The authors’ stance is that (1) LLMs must be embraced, (2) their use does not constitute plagiarism although they may produce plagiarized text, (3) their bias must be quantified, (4) users must be cautious of poor accuracy, and (5) the future is bright for their application to research and as an academic tool.
- ChatGPT can present false information as truth: when asked to help find relevant publications to cite, it “proceeded to make up a list of five entirely fictional publications”; on repeat trials it sometimes listed one or two real papers, but other times fabricated a paper or returned an irrelevant one.
- On scalability and accessibility, the paper reports ChatGPT gained 100 million active users in 2 months, with an estimated 13 million daily queries, compared with Google search’s estimated 8.5 billion daily queries; ChatGPT offers a free tier and a $20/month premium plan. It also notes BLOOM as an open access 176B parameter multilingual LLM, ChatGPT as a 175 billion parameter LLM, speculation that OpenAI had access to 10,000 Nvidia V100s costing close to $5 million, and an estimate that training BERT (described as a 6 billion parameter LLM) would produce 21 to 78 metric tons of CO2.
- For academic writing, LLMs may particularly help non-native English speakers; the paper cites that 49% of postdoctoral fellows trained in the United States were born overseas, and in engineering, math, and computer science, 60% of PhDs were awarded to international students. For programming, ChatGPT can help write, interpret, debug, simplify, and translate code, but it may present incorrect code as correct, miss edge cases, and is more reliable for smaller blocks than larger complex programs.
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Design: editorial/commentary, not an empirical study or systematic review.
- Data or sample: no primary data; the paper draws on published literature, illustrative examples, and the authors’ experiences.
- Main analysis: narrative discussion of opportunities and challenges across academic writing, education, programming, bias, and scalability/accessibility.
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The paper does not report a formal limitations section for its own approach. Evident from the text: it is an editorial/commentary, so its examples are illustrative and include personal experiences rather than systematic evidence.
- The paper states LLM limitations: hallucination/false information, bias from training data, poor accuracy, misrepresentation of capabilities, and inability to anticipate edge cases in code.
- The paper notes unresolved ethical/legal uncertainty around LLM use in academic writing and grants, and that detection of cheating remains an unsolved challenge for educators.
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“A fundamental challenge with LLM-based chatbots is that they can present false information as truth, also known as “hallucination”.”
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“For example, when asked if it could help find relevant publications to cite in a review paper, ChatGPT confirmed that it could, but then proceeded to make up a list of five entirely fictional publications.”
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“In fact, ChatGPT and Bard can misrepresent their capabilities.”
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“For example, LLMs may adopt bias, perpetuate stereotypes in the training dataset, and present false information as truth.”
§ ChatGPT and large language models in academia: opportunities and challenges > Introduction
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- Not checked yetcites [3] Sallam M. ChatGPT utility in healthcare education, research, and practice: systematic review on the promising perspectives and valid concerns. Healthcare. 2023;11(6):887. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11060887. source
- Not checked yetcites [4] Kung TH, Cheatham M, Medenilla A, Sillos C, De Leon L, Elepaño C, et al. Performance of ChatGPT on USMLE: Potential for AI-assisted medical education using large language models. PLOS Digit Health. 2023;2:e0000198. source
- Not checked yetcites [5] Liebrenz M, Schleifer R, Buadze A, Bhugra D, Smith A. Generating scholarly content with ChatGPT: ethical challenges for medical publishing. Lancet Digit Health. 2023;5:e105–6. source
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“These issues limit the utility of LLM chatbots in some domains, such as the medical field, where facts are essential to ensure the best health outcomes.”
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“Thus, an answer generated by a large language model can be formatted correctly but not necessarily be factual.”
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“Over reliance may hinder students ability to develop critical skills, such as writing [21].”
§ ChatGPT and large language models in academia: opportunities and challenges > Education
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [21] Shidiq M. The use of artificial intelligence-based chat-gpt and its challenges for the world of education; from the viewpoint of the development of creative writing skills. Proc Int Conf Educ Soc Humanity. 2023;1(1):353–7. ISSN 2986-5832.
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“Consequently, employing LMMs with pre-written text is unlikely to raise ethical concerns such as plagiarism, which may arise when using prompt-based text generation by LMMs.”
§ ChatGPT and large language models in academia: opportunities and challenges > ChatGPT for academic writing > ChatGPT as a writing and editing tool
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“Unethically and irresponsibly designed AI/ML solutions deployed in the healthcare setting can exacerbate and perpetuate systematic biases and disparities for those from marginalized groups [27–29].”
§ ChatGPT and large language models in academia: opportunities and challenges > Bias
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- Not checked yetcites [27] Vyas DA, Eisenstein LG, Jones DS. Hidden in Plain Sight - Reconsidering the Use of Race Correction in Clinical Algorithms. N Engl J Med. 2020;383:874–82. source
- Not checked yetcites [28] Gijsberts CM, Groenewegen KA, Hoefer IE, Eijkemans MJC, Asselbergs FW, Anderson TJ, et al. Race/Ethnic Differences in the Associations of the Framingham Risk Factors with Carotid IMT and Cardiovascular Events. PLoS ONE. 2015;10:e0132321. source
- Not checked yetcites [29] Obermeyer Z, Powers B, Vogeli C, Mullainathan S. Dissecting Racial Bias in an Algorithm used to Manage the Health of Populations. Science. 2019;366:447–53. source
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“A recent study estimated that the training of BERT (a 6 billion parameter LLM) would produce between 21 to 78 metric tons of CO2 to train to completion [14].”
§ ChatGPT and large language models in academia: opportunities and challenges > Scalability and accessibility of LLMs
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [14] Dodge J, Prewitt T, Des Combes RT, Odmark E, Schwartz R, Strubell E, Luccioni AS, Smith NA, DeCario N, Buchanan W. Measuring the Carbon Intensity of AI in Cloud Instances. arXiv. 2022;2206.05229. source
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“Until the root-causes of the encoded biases of LLMs are addressed, LLMs for clinical applications will suffer the same fate, propagating biases [30, 31].”
§ ChatGPT and large language models in academia: opportunities and challenges > Bias
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [30] Neeley T, Ruper S. Timnit Gebru: 'SILENCED No More' on AI Bias and The Harms of Large Language Models. Harvard Business School Case. 2022;422–085.
- Not checked yetcites [31] Bender EM, Gebru T, McMillan-Major A, Shmitchell S. On the dangers of stochastic parrots: can language models be too big? In: Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency. New York, NY, USA: ACM; 2021. p. 610–23. source
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“In one author's experience experimenting with how ChatGPT might help write grants, ChatGPT can help provide some ideas for interesting directions, even suggesting sound logical reasons that we need to do research that could find their way into the significance section of NIH grants.”
§ ChatGPT and large language models in academia: opportunities and challenges > ChatGPT for academic writing > ChatGPT and LLMs for grant proposal writing
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“However, grants must convey many complex ideas in a short amount of space, and as such, since much of the text from ChatGPT is so general and often repetitive, in our experience none of the text produced by ChatGPT made it into the final grant proposal.”
§ ChatGPT and large language models in academia: opportunities and challenges > ChatGPT for academic writing > ChatGPT and LLMs for grant proposal writing
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“ChatGPT can even provide general text that might be logically used in parts of the grant, such as the aims page.”
§ ChatGPT and large language models in academia: opportunities and challenges > ChatGPT for academic writing > ChatGPT and LLMs for grant proposal writing
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“A more important concern regarding students learning from a LLM is that it typically responds in a confident, and seemingly knowing manner, whether the provided information is accurate or not.”
§ ChatGPT and large language models in academia: opportunities and challenges > Education
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“It can suggest specific experiments that might test a hypothesis of interest.”
§ ChatGPT and large language models in academia: opportunities and challenges > ChatGPT for academic writing > ChatGPT and LLMs for grant proposal writing
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“A surprising effect for one author of this editorial was that it helped overcome writer's block in that simply having some text on the page was sufficient to move forward with editing.”
§ ChatGPT and large language models in academia: opportunities and challenges > ChatGPT for academic writing > ChatGPT and LLMs for grant proposal writing
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“The model can generate correctly formatted information such as references, that do not exist.”
§ ChatGPT and large language models in academia: opportunities and challenges > Conclusion
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“ChatGPT will misrepresent its knowledge; instead of responding “I don’t know”, it will readily provide fabricated information with apparent confidence.”
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“For example, LLMs may adopt bias, perpetuate stereotypes in the training dataset, and present false information as truth.”
§ ChatGPT and large language models in academia: opportunities and challenges > Introduction
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [3] Sallam M. ChatGPT utility in healthcare education, research, and practice: systematic review on the promising perspectives and valid concerns. Healthcare. 2023;11(6):887. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11060887. source
- Not checked yetcites [4] Kung TH, Cheatham M, Medenilla A, Sillos C, De Leon L, Elepaño C, et al. Performance of ChatGPT on USMLE: Potential for AI-assisted medical education using large language models. PLOS Digit Health. 2023;2:e0000198. source
- Not checked yetcites [5] Liebrenz M, Schleifer R, Buadze A, Bhugra D, Smith A. Generating scholarly content with ChatGPT: ethical challenges for medical publishing. Lancet Digit Health. 2023;5:e105–6. source
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“For example, it would not be wise to base treatment plans on outputs from ChatGPT, at least in its current state, because this would lead to a large proportion of misdiagnoses and ineffective treatments that could cause patient harm.”
§ ChatGPT and large language models in academia: opportunities and challenges > Background
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“Deploying AI models at scale is a challenge that future AI technologies will have to face even for tech giants such as Google (Bard power by LaMDA) and Microsoft (AI powered Bing) that have announced AI integration within their respective search engines.”
§ ChatGPT and large language models in academia: opportunities and challenges > Scalability and accessibility of LLMs
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“In line with warnings for general use, ChatGPT may somewhat unpredictably present incorrect code as being correct.”
§ ChatGPT and large language models in academia: opportunities and challenges > Assistance with programming
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“Concerns have arisen regarding how students might easily use ChatGPT dishonestly, either to cheat in the completion of homework or exams, or to write reports/essays without citation in a manner that could be construed as plagiarism [22].”
§ ChatGPT and large language models in academia: opportunities and challenges > Education
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [22] Neumann M, Rauschenberger M, Schön E-M. “We Need To Talk About ChatGPT”: The Future of AI and Higher Education. 2023:4. https://doi.org/10.25968/opus-2467. source
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“Currently, ChatGPT is more likely to be successful in accurately writing smaller blocks of code, whereas its reliability in writing larger/more complex programs (e.g. a software package) is questionable.”
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“Ultimately, code written by ChatGPT may offer a useful starting point, however both the code and comments that it generates should be checked and validated by both the programmer and users to confirm that it fully satisfies the intended purpose.”
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“ChatGPT also promises to facilitate computer programming in terms of (1) learning to code or use specific packages, libraries, or frameworks, (2) writing new code, (3) interpreting existing code, (4) debugging existing code, (5) increasing the compactness or efficiency of code, or (6) translating code from one programming language to another.”
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“LLMs provide benefits and opportunities in education for students by assisting with research and academic writing [15] or using them as an interactive study guide which may include generating practice exams and being provided immediate feedback [16, 17].”
§ ChatGPT and large language models in academia: opportunities and challenges > Education
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [15] Kasneci E, Sessler K, Küchemann S, Bannert M, Dementieva D, Fischer F, et al. ChatGPT for good? On opportunities and challenges of large language models for education. Learn Individ Differ. 2023;103:102274. source
- Not checked yetcites [16] MacNeil S, Tran A, Mogil D, Bernstein S, Ross E, Huang Z. Generating Diverse Code Explanations using the GPT-3 Large Language Model. In: Vahrenhold J, Fisler K, Hauswirth M, Franklin D, editors. Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research - Volume 2. New York, NY, USA: ACM; 2022. p. 37–9. source
- Not checked yetcites [17] Tate TP, Doroudi S, Ritchie D, Xu Y, Mark Warschauer UCI. Educational Research and AI-Generated Writing: Confronting the Coming Tsunami. 2023.
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“While AI has the potential to revolutionize education and academic research, paywalled access could further increase the divide between the wealthy and the poor.”
§ ChatGPT and large language models in academia: opportunities and challenges > Scalability and accessibility of LLMs
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“Data produced from ChatGPT may be inaccurate or biased [23], which users need to be aware of to ensure these deficiencies are not propagated in their works.”
§ ChatGPT and large language models in academia: opportunities and challenges > Education
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [23] Baidoo-Anu D, Owusu Ansah L. Education in the Era of Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI): Understanding the Potential Benefits of ChatGPT in Promoting Teaching and Learning. 2023. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4337484 or https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4337484. source
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“This editorial provides several examples and perspectives on how LLMs increase the efficiency of academic writing, education, and programming.”
§ ChatGPT and large language models in academia: opportunities and challenges > Conclusion
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“In many contexts, LLMs have low accuracy.”
§ ChatGPT and large language models in academia: opportunities and challenges > Conclusion
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“Output from ChatGPT will match existing text on the internet, particularly if the sample is small enough.”
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- Rests on an assumption: The output of ChatGPT is from most publicly available text on the internet until 2021.
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“However, ChatGPT does not do anything without a prompt.”
§ ChatGPT and large language models in academia: opportunities and challenges > Conclusion
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“When LLMs for clinical applications are socially, consciously, and transparently designed with such considerations, they can become an additional tool for promoting equity and improving access to care.”
§ ChatGPT and large language models in academia: opportunities and challenges > Bias
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“The performance of ChatGPT and other LLMs therefore mimics the available text, and they are as biased as their training data.”
§ ChatGPT and large language models in academia: opportunities and challenges > Conclusion
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- Rests on an assumption: The output of ChatGPT is from most publicly available text on the internet until 2021.
- Rests on an assumption: ChatGPT is known to perpetuate stereotypes such as nurses being female and doctors being male, and this bias comes from the training data.
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“Thus, in a strict sense, LLMs like ChatGPT do produce plagiarism.”
§ ChatGPT and large language models in academia: opportunities and challenges > Conclusion
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- Rests on an assumption: The output of ChatGPT is from most publicly available text on the internet until 2021.
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“As companies race to innovate with LLMs like ChatGPT and others, encoded biases will be amplified, and harm will manifest.”
§ ChatGPT and large language models in academia: opportunities and challenges > Bias
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Effective academic writing is essential to the success and quality of academic publications and is a major challenge facing international postdocs and students.
“Effective academic writing plays an essential role in the success and quality of academic publications, nevertheless, it is one of the major challenges facing international postdocs and students.”
The paper relies on this without support.
The current grant review system is subjective; some proposals scored very poorly in one study section while nearly the same proposal at another study section is funded.
“Despite this massive investment, the current review system is subjective; for example, some proposals sent to one study section are scored very poorly, while nearly the same proposal at another study section is funded.”
The paper relies on this without support.
ChatGPT has already been applied to help write grant proposals.
“ChatGPT has undoubtedly already been applied to help write grant proposals.”
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ChatGPT is a 175 billion parameter LLM.
“As a reminder, ChatGPT is a 175 billion parameter LLM and this only considers the cost of training and not any cost related to generating text in response to potentially billions of daily queries.”
The paper relies on this without support.
The output of ChatGPT is from most publicly available text on the internet until 2021.
“The output of ChatGPT is from most publicly available text on the internet until 2021.”
The paper relies on this without support.
ChatGPT is known to perpetuate stereotypes such as nurses being female and doctors being male, and this bias comes from the training data.
“For example, ChatGPT is known to perpetuate stereotypes such as nurses being female and doctors being male, and this bias comes from the training data.”
The paper relies on this without support.
The use of ChatGPT and other LLMs by students is inevitable.
“As the use of ChatGPT and other LLMs by students is inevitable, educators will need to change the pedagogy and assessments in education, such as integrating the use of ChatGPT in lessons [26], and a focus more on the process rather than the final product for assessment.”
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Detection of cheaters remains an unsolved challenge for educators.
“While the detection of cheaters remains an unsolved challenge for educators, if we start from the assumption that students are allowed, if not encouraged, to utilize ChatGPT, strategies could be adopted to account for this.”
The paper relies on this without support.
It is difficult to define metrics that assess the level of bias in training data and model outputs.
“It is difficult to define metrics that assess the level of bias in the training data and in the model outputs.”
The paper relies on this without support.
AI has the potential to revolutionize education and academic research.
“While AI has the potential to revolutionize education and academic research, paywalled access could further increase the divide between the wealthy and the poor.”
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“using GenAI to automate routine administrative tasks in higher education, such as consolidation of grades, creating performance summaries of students, crafting out evaluation reports, and maintaining student enrolment and attendance records (Meyer et al., 2023).”
From Higher Education's Generative Artificial Intelligence Paradox: The Meaning of Chatbot Mania (2024) · cites this paper as Meyer et al., 2023
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“Third, LLMs can act as a thought partner for students and enhance understanding by providing detailed explanations and step-by-step solutions (Mollick and Mollick 2022, Kasneci et al. 2023, Meyer et al. 2023, Extance 2023).”
From AI Meets the Classroom: When Do Large Language Models Harm Learning? (2024) · cites this paper as Meyer et al. 2023
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“there has been a notable upswing in discussions among scholars and academicians regarding the transformative potential of generative AI, particularly ChatGPT, in higher education and the risks associated with it (Dalalah & Dalalah, 2023; Meyer et al., 2023; Peters et al., 2023; Yilmaz & Yilmaz, 2023a).”
From Is it harmful or helpful? Examining the causes and consequences of generative AI usage among university students (2024) · cites this paper as Meyer et al., 2023
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“The consequence of a self-referential loop in LLMs can lead to several problematic outcomes, including the propagation of biases [30], increased homogeneity in generated data, and ultimately, hindered performance.”
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“ChatGPT is considered the fastest-growing technology in history: in just three months following its public launch, it amassed an estimated 120 million monthly active users [16] with an estimated 13 million daily queries [49], surpassing all other applications [64].”
From A systematic literature review of empirical research on ChatGPT in education (2024) · cites this paper as [49]
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“a fundamental challenge with LLM-based chatbots, including ChatGPT, is the accuracy and quality of the provided information and responses, as they provide false information as truth—a phenomenon often referred to as “hallucination” [3, 49]”
From A systematic literature review of empirical research on ChatGPT in education (2024) · cites this paper as [49]
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§ ChatGPT and large language models in academia: opportunities and challenges > ChatGPT for academic writing > Ethics and rules of using text from ChatGPT
“In one case, ChatGPT was listed as an author in the preprint [9] but missing as an author in the final publication [4].”
§ ChatGPT and large language models in academia: opportunities and challenges > References
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“…of ChatGPT in education are promoting personalized and interactive learning, generating prompts for formative assessment activities that provide ongoing feedback to inform teaching and learning, etc. [4] drafting quick and direct answers to specific questions, and being a content generator [3].”
ChatGPT im Einsatz: Förderung der Schreibkompetenz im universitären DaF-Unterricht
Akan, S. (2025) · Buca eğitim fakültesi dergisi (Online)/Buca Eğitim Fakültesi dergisi · doi:10.53444/deubefd.1507749
“Zudem wurde es durch menschliches Feedback verfeinert, um qualitativ hochwertige Ergebnisse zu erzielen (Meyer et al., 2023). ist (Maden & Yetişensoy, 2024).”
Gender Stereotypes in the Creation of Educational Cases with ChatGPT
Valerio-Ureña, G., Sevilla-Campoverde, G., Ortuzar, S., & Lazcano, C. (2024) · International Symposium on Multimedia · doi:10.1109/ism63611.2024.00059 · Cited by 2
LaGR-SEQ: Language-guided reinforcement learning with sample-efficient querying
Karimpanal, T. G., Semage, B. L., Rana, S., Lê, H., Tran, T., Gupta, S., & Venkatesh, S. (2025) · Neural Computing and Applications · doi:10.1007/s00521-025-11156-y · Cited by 7
Artificial Intelligence Initiative in Taiwan: A Systematic Literature Review
Alamsyah, N. (2024) · International Conference on Informatics and Computing (ICIC) · doi:10.1109/icic64337.2024.10956705
“With reference to the emergence of generative AI (GenAI) and the advent of large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT [7].”
LLM-Assisted Performance Indicators for Student Outcome Assessment
Renu, R. S. (2025) · ASEE Gulf Southwest Section Conference · doi:10.18260/1-2--55067
Subject Matter Expert versus ChatGPT
Knadler, C. E. (2025) · Communications in computer and information science · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-86623-4_19
Detecção de textos gerados pelo ChatGPT
de Moraes, F. S. (2024) · Revista de Ciências do Estado · doi:10.35699/2525-8036.2024.53509
Mishra, S., & Lal, N. (2025) · Emerald Group Publishing Limited eBooks · doi:10.1108/978-1-83549-852-120251002
Fan, Y., Masnadi, M. S., Jing, L., Ren, B., & Brandt, A. R. (2025) · SSRN Electronic Journal · doi:10.2139/ssrn.5247757
Artificial Intelligence and the Diagnosis of Interstitial Lung Disease: Are We Ready for ChatMDT ?!
Maher, T. M. (2025) · Respirology · doi:10.1111/resp.70056
Pretrained Language Models for Automatic Source Code Generation: Evaluation and Application
Bender, A., & Nicolet, S. (2025) · Communications in computer and information science · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-87386-7_7
¿Es la inteligencia artificial el nuevo oráculo de la academia?
Sánchez, J. C. M. (2024) · Aportes Nueva Época · doi:10.32399/aportesne.febuap.30618053.2024.1.1.354
Bisaso, S., Wasswa, W., & Muhumuza, G. (2025) · European Journal of Applied Science Engineering and Technology · doi:10.59324/ejaset.2025.3(3).16
“A crucial pedagogical requirement is to ensure seamless handover protocols that allow students to transition from AI support to human advisors when their needs become complex, sensitive, or require nuanced human expertise a notion supported by several studies [15], [17].”
Betin, V. N., Ivashchenko, V. A., & Suprun, A. P. (2025) · Automatic Documentation and Mathematical Linguistics · doi:10.3103/s0005105525700542
“…these systems implement the most modern achievements in the field of ANN architecture with deep machine learning technologies [1–4] and have found practical application [5–8], they have a common drawback—the lack of transparency in explaining the method by which the solution was obtained [9].”
Xu, W., Lin, K.-L., Ailixiati, G., Yorke, J., Pan, J.-D., Liu, T., Chen, H., Zhang, S.-F., Zhang, Z.-J., Ho, K. Y., et al. (2025) · Research Square · doi:10.21203/rs.3.rs-6803964/v1
Harnessing LLM of ChatGPT in Teaching Discourse Analysis for English Linguistic Major Students
Cuong, T. Q., & Yen, N. T. L. (2025) · Lecture notes in networks and systems · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-91005-0_13
ChatGPT for Coding: User Insights and Challenges in Program Generation
Talib, M. W. A., Bettayeb, A. M., Altayasinah, A. Z. S., & Dakalbab, F. M. (2025) · International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC) · doi:10.1109/iwcmc65282.2025.11059508
“AI's transformative potential extends across fields, and Kalla and Smith [8] provide an in-depth analysis of ChatGPT's impact.”
InfluentialExploring the Potential of ChatGPT in Ophthalmology: A Vision for Future Healthcare
Ayalon, A., Wasser, L. M., Williams, A. M., & Sahel, J. (2025) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-83756-2_28
Optimizing Small-Scale Language Models for Robotic Task Planning: Insights into Prompt Design
Wu, F., Wang, Z., Li, Y., & Wu, Q. (2025) · International Conference on Computing and Artificial Intelligence (ICCAI) · doi:10.1109/iccai66501.2025.00066
“As the size of the LLMs becomes larger and larger, running these models all the time has a great burden on electrical energy [8].”
BOARD # 92: WIP: Generative AI-based Learning Tutor for Biomedical Data Science (GAIL Tutor BDS)
Vu, K., Maddox, A., Tonon, C., Zhu, G., Wang, T., Opperman, R., Ding, Q., Bai, Z., liu, Z., Wang, Z., et al. (2025) · ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition · doi:10.18260/1-2--55909
Decision-making for technology-led transformation in research practices
Ulusoy, Ö. (2025) · AI & Society · doi:10.1007/s00146-025-02567-5
“These systems can generate summaries, suggest hypotheses, provide research ideas, and assist in drafting grant proposals and purpose statements (Chen 2023; Meyer et al. 2023).”
Fan, Y., Masnadi, M. S., Jing, L., Ren, B., & Brandt, A. R. (2025) · Energy and AI · doi:10.1016/j.egyai.2025.100601
Pereira, R. B. (2025) · SSRN Electronic Journal · doi:10.2139/ssrn.5462407
Reliability and Limitations of GPT-Based Automated Evaluation of Creative Writing
Kim, S. (2025) · Journal of Digital Contents Society · doi:10.9728/dcs.2025.26.8.2141
Ulusoy, F. (2025) · Advances in computational intelligence and robotics book series · doi:10.4018/979-8-3373-1998-8.ch007
Napolitano, L., Altieri, V. M., Cilio, S., Manfredi, C., & Arcaniolo, D. (2025) · Minerva Urology and Nephrology · doi:10.23736/s2724-6051.25.06715-1
Miskell, C., Slhoub, K., & Mensi, N. (2025) · Lecture notes in networks and systems · doi:10.1007/978-3-032-07992-3_17
GrantCheck—an AI Solution for Guiding Grant Language to New Policy Requirements: Development Study
Shi, Q., Oztekin, A., Matthew, G., Bortle, J., Jenkins, H., Wong, S., Langlois, P., Zaki, A., Coleman, B., Luzuriaga, K., et al. (2025) · JMIR Formative Research · doi:10.2196/79038 · Cited by 1
“Meyer et al [13] observed that LLMs can accelerate early drafting by overcoming writer’s block, although human revision is essential to ensure specificity and policy compliance.”
Assessing Chatbots: A Comparative Study Across Five Core Competencies
Kaur, G., Saeid, E., & Alzaeem, R. (2025) · International Conference on Engineering Innovations and Technologies (ICoEIT) · doi:10.1109/icoeit63558.2025.11211638
“There exist distinct performances of these models, depending on various architectures, fine-tuning approaches, and end-use application considerations [3][4].”
Guidelines for managing and utilizing generative artificial intelligence writing tools
Mufeti, T. K., Amakali, J. M. L., & Greenlaw, R. (2025) · NAWA Journal of Language and Communication · doi:10.59677/njllcs.v19i1.121
Aslam, M., & Iqbal, C. (2025) · SSRN Electronic Journal · doi:10.2139/ssrn.5903446
Los Modelos Extensos de Lenguaje (LLM) como calculadoras de palabras, una precisión conceptual
Serrano, J. F. M., & Zambrano, A. F. C. (2025) · Praxis Filosófica Nueva Serie · doi:10.25100/pfilosofica.v0i62s.15097
Benchmarking large language models for identifying transcription factor regulatory interactions
Noel, L., Hsiao, Y.-W., He, Y., Hung, A. J., Cui, X., Ray, E., Moore, J. H., Peng, P.-C., & Huang, X. (2025) · Bioinformatics · doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btaf653
“AI chatbots powered by large language models (LLMs) have transformed academic research by automating literature reviews, enhancing data analysis, and fostering interdisciplinary research (Meyer et al. 2023).”
Self-citationOladokun, B. D., Ogunjimi, B. E., Olatunbosun, I. E., Adefila, E. K., Abdul, A., Ebhonu, S. I., Omoniyi, Y. M., & Enakrire, R. T. (2025) · Journal of Library Metadata · doi:10.1080/19386389.2025.2598503 · Cited by 1
“LLMs such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT have been described as both powerful and problematic, capable of accelerating tasks like summarization and ideation, but also prone to hallucination, bias, and plagiarism risks (Meyer et al., 2023; Roumeliotis & Tselikas, 2023; Shen et al., 2023).”
Maintaining Academic Integrity in the Era of Large Language Models
Hidayati, N. N., Santosa, A., Nurfadhilah, E., Latief, A. D., Komariah, K. S., Jarin, A., Pebiana, S., Wabula, Y., Fajri, R., & Sampurno, T. (2025) · Advances in computational intelligence and robotics book series · doi:10.4018/979-8-3373-0250-8.ch005
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A Critical Narrative Synthesis Toward Precision Medical Training in Radiology Education
Alkhalili, K., & Ali, S. (2025) · Inquisiva Open · doi:10.64551/001c.150391
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ChatGPT and Its Utilization in English Teaching and Learning: A Systematic Literature Review
Shadiev, R., Zulkharnay, A., Razbekova, A., Otembet, M., Nurakhova, D., Beisembayeva, Z., & Zhussupova, R. P. T. S. S. (2025) · Lecture notes in educational technology · doi:10.1007/978-981-95-5234-4_13
Metadata
- Authors
- Meyer, J. G., Urbanowicz, R. J., Martin, P. C. N., O’Connor, K., Li, R., Peng, P.-C., Bright, T. J., Tatonetti, N., Won, K. J., Gonzalez-Hernandez, G., & Moore, J. H.
- Affiliations
- Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (US)
- University of Pennsylvania (US)
- Corresponding author
- Meyer, Jesse G.
- Moore, Jason H.
- ORCID
- Venue
- BioData Mining
- Published
- 2023-07-13
- Volume
- 16
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 20-20
- ISSN
- 1756-0381 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC10339472
- OpenAlex
- W4384200891
- Semantic Scholar
- e95b10b9a8415874f24275b665628fc340eee5dc
- Cited by
- 569
- References
- 23
- Citations by year
- 2026: 104 · 2025: 215 · 2024: 220 · 2023: 29
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Locations
- BioData Mining (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Funders
- National Institute on Aging (AG066833)
- National Institute of General Medical Sciences (R35GM142502)
- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (R01AI164481)
- U.S. National Library of Medicine (R01LM011176)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Education › Artificial Intelligence in Education
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Health Informatics › Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education
- Keywords
- large language models, ChatGPT, academic writing, artificial intelligence in education, AI-assisted programming, plagiarism, algorithmic bias, AI accuracy, research tools, ethics of AI use
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