In each passing day of reading online content, an ongoing question in the back of my mind is, “was this written with Generative AI?” Being able to confidently detect synthetic text is debatable, thus we are seeing much interest in how content creators are being transparent in stating their GenAI use.
Recognizing the expanding use of GenAI, and restricting it being not only unfeasible, but perhaps unfair, for the 2025 Open Education Awards for Excellence we added to the nomination form an optional field for “Generative AI Transparency” (see a document version of the entire form):
In a spirit of transparency, we ask all nominators to indicate how Generative AI was used to submit this form. e.