Plagiarism in times of artificial intelligence

Software based on artificial intelligence (AI) from the field of  Natural Language Processing (NLP) has the potential to  fundamentally change scientific writing at universities.  Related applications are already capable of producing  astonishingly coherent texts in a scientific tone. This raises  fundamental questions about good scholarly practice and  academic culture in both research and teaching. This paper explores this development against the background of a  survey of German writing pedagogy and discusses  questions of central importance related to AI writing tools.  Finally, we propose a declaration of academic integrity that  takes into account the technological developments  described.