Generative Artificial Intelligence and Usage in Academia

Artificial intelligence is not a new concept. However, it has reached an important point with technological development. Today, there are many software developed using artificial intelligence and various application areas where they are used. Generative artificial intelligence, one of these areas, is a technology in machine learning of artificial intelligence, aiming to generate new content by training on large data sets. Generative artificial intelligence is used in fields such as health, business, finance, e-commerce, academic studies, and R&D. This study evaluates the use of generative artificial intelligence applications in the academic field. In this context, the differences and similarities between texts generated by ChatGPT, Claude Sonet, and Google Gemini generative artificial intelligence applications and texts prepared by human intelligence were analyzed regarding subject integrity, language, ethics, and plagiarism rate. Descriptive content analysis, one of the qualitative methods, was used in the study. As a result, it was concluded that texts generated by generative artificial intelligence applications and texts prepared by human intelligence are similar in subject integrity and content, and plagiarism rates of texts generated by generative artificial intelligence vary according to language.