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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] 86 points 8 months ago (18 children)

The individual GPT-3.5 output with the highest similarity score was in computer science (100%), followed by physics (92%), and psychology (88%).

And that’s why this claim is mostly bullshit. These use cases are all sciences, where the correct solution is usually the same or highly similar no matter who writes it. Small snippets of computer code cannot be copyrighted anyway.

Not surprisingly, softer subjects like “English” and “Theatre” rank extremely low on this scale.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Eh, kinda. It’s not like a science paper is just going to be an equation and nothing else. An author’s synthesis of the results is always going to have unique language. And that is even more true for a social science paper.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Are those "best matches" paper-sized, or snippet-sized?

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

Article mentioned 400-word chunks, so much less than paper-sized.

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