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dentastic t1_j5oqk7j wrote

Reply to comment by iingot in CNET's AI Journalist Appears to Have Committed Extensive Plagiarism by iingot

Riddle me this tho: is it ever possible for an ai to not plagiarize? Everything they write has to come from something they've seen in their database.

I suppose the same could ve said for humans, but idk what counts in that regard

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OneWithMath t1_j5p4rlc wrote

>Everything they write has to come from something they've seen in their database.

The models learn ideas and concepts, they don't just copy text. Now, using an idea without giving credit is plagiarism, that makes it problematic that they can't cite sources for generated text. However they don't simply recreate prior sentences under normal conditions.

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