Students have been warned that they face expulsion and disgrace if they try to use artificial intelligence apps to cheat their way to academic success.
Universities across Scotland are preparing strategies to cope with the rise of ChatGPT, an online text generator that can create a bespoke, competently written essay in seconds.
Its popularity exploded after its launch in November and it has been boosted again by suggestions that it can fool plagiarism-detection programs.
Universities Scotland, the umbrella body for Scotland’s 19 higher education institutions, said it would monitor the effect of artificially generated student submissions.
