Is AI Changing the Rules of Academic Misconduct? An In-depth Look at Students' Perceptions of 'AI-giarism'

Simultaneously, the use of AI in academic writing has generated significant interest in AI related plagiarism. This has led to the emergence of a new term that warrants our attention: AI-giarism, a term that combines'AI' and'plagiarism', and has yet to be widely researched and defined within academic literature. For the study of AI in education in relation to academic misconduct, I, propose the following definition: AI-giarism refers to the unethical practice of using artificial intelligence technology, particularly generative language models, to generate content that is plagiarised either from original human-authored work or directly from AIgenerated content, without appropriate acknowledgement of the original sources or AI's contribution. This can happen when people use AI tools or language models to create written or multimedia content, such as articles, blog posts, images or videos, without properly attributing the original sources or modifying the content sufficiently to make it original (Salvagno et al, 2023). Some AI tools are designed to generate content by automatically combining or predicting from different sources, such as articles or websites, and paraphrasing them to create new content.