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by NicoleJO 1231 days ago
How does ChatGPT plagiarize?

ChatGPT plagiarizes by copying other people's work. It does this by storing what it reads from people and conversations, and then using it. Basically, ChatGPT looks for ways to copy and paste other people's substance and present it as its own. It does this by grabbing text from all kinds of places, such as websites, books, and articles, and then using those words to create something new. In other words, ChatGPT has a large database stored with words, sentences and phrases that it can use to create its own work, which can sound like it was written by a human.
2 comments
NoPicklez 1231 days ago
Kinda like how I plagiarized the words spoken by my parents growing up as a baby.

I learnt lots of swear words from reading other peoples work.

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NicoleJO 1231 days ago
Don't be stupid. This is no where near the same thing.
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NoPicklez 1231 days ago
I agree it might potentially plagiarize some content. As in academia you cannot make a claim or present someone else's work or ideas as your own without referencing where you got the claim from. ChatGPT makes claims about things without referencing the original author/authors of that content.

However, not everything is considered plagiarism just because I read it somewhere and reproduced it somewhere else. If someone described something in detail on a forum and ChatGPT took that information from across the internet and reproduced it for me. That's not necessarily plagiarism.

My point being, there is an enormous amount of information on the internet that is free from plagiarism.

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NicoleJO 1231 days ago
ChatGPT stole from everyone, dude. So just stop.

https://www.wired.com/story/chatgpt-generative-artificial-in...

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sekai 1231 days ago
It's pretty similar, plagiarized is not really the right word for it. It's more like learning.
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thro1 1229 days ago
why does ChatGPT plagiarize?

ChatGPT plagiarizes because it is a computer program that is programmed to copy sentences from other sources and paste them as its replies. The program does not truly understand what it is saying, so it sometimes repeats the same thing from other sources. Instead of making up its own sentences it just finds something similar from another source and copies it.

one thing ChatGPT cannot do ?

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