FFive minutes to evade it: the Final Degree Project (TFG) and academic papers in the light of Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

The Bachelor's Degree in Fundamentals of Architecture at the Rey Juan Carlos University, since its implementation, includes a subject whose objective is, among others, to prepare students to face the writing of an academic research paper and to serve them in writing, upon completion of their undergraduate studies, the Final Degree Project (TFG) in which they demonstrate the acquisition of competencies associated with their studies. The presentation analyzes the evolution of academic fraud in the subject and its adaptation to different detection systems until the arrival of ChatGPT and Generative Artificial Intelligences. These tools, which represent a differential increase in the ability to evade the controls of the evaluators, must lead to a reflection that could even lead to a reconsideration of the permanence of the final validation test that constitutes the TFG.