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New report: 60% of OpenAI model's responses contain plagiarism (www.axios.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (6 children)

A genuine question: How well do chatgpt & others add citations if asked?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago* (last edited 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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Microsoft's copilot adds them, it's why I prefer to use it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I know, but gpt doesn't do it, so I won't use it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

There is custom gpts for that. ScholarAI and Consensus are OK.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

It depends on how they're using it behind the scenes. Chatbots like ChatGPT can't cite sources, because they are just generating text on the fly. However, some approaches (if links/sources are provided) use an approach called Rag (Retrevial Augmented Generation). This approach uses similarity in search terms to find sources first, then uses the sources to augment/generate its answer.

That being said there are pros and cons to both approaches.

[–] crazyCat 1 points 8 months ago

Perplexity AI includes citations every time.