A new report from plagiarism detector Copyleaks found that 60% of OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 outputs contained some form of plagiarism.

Why it matters: Content creators from authors and songwriters to The New York Times are arguing in court that generative AI trained on copyrighted material ends up spitting out exact copies.

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      8 months ago

      ChatGPT itself doesn’t know where it got the info from, so it makes up links and names - it’s a language model, not a search engine.

      On the other hand, if you manage to find a reputable source and give it relevant metadata, it can format a nice citation for you, saving you time on that instead.

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      8 months ago

      Badly. This burns my laziest students every semester. Chatgpt just adds nonsense citations.

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        Copilot is GPT under the hood, it just starts with a search step that finds (hopefully) relevant content and then passes that to GPT for summarization.