Does Artificial Intelligence Have a Plagiarism Problem?

Lonnie Pacelli is an Accenture/Microsoft veteran with four decades of learnings under his belt. He frequently writes and speaks on leadership, project management, work/life balance, and disability inclusion. Reach him at [email protected] and see more at ProjectManagementAdvisor.com.

  Artificial Intelligence   Knowledge Management  

Artificial intelligence has quickly transformed from something only the techies talked about to a kitchen table discussion topic. As an author whose work has been frequently plagiarized, my interest in AI has increased as the technology becomes more pervasive. To get more information on the topic, I decided to ask Bing’s AI copilot about AI and plagiarism. I asked it three questions, and am sharing the responses I received:

1. Is AI plagiarism?

“Technically, AI-generated content is not plagiarism. Plagiarism refers to copying other people’s content, whether you copy an article word for word or paraphrase it, to avoid detection. Merriam-Webster defines ‘plagiarism’ as taking someone else’s ideas or words and presenting them as one’s own (source: quetext.com). Since artificial intelligence tools generate unique content from scratch instead of stealing someone’s ideas, using an AI tool isn’t technically plagiarism, unlike copy-paste plagiarism. However, that’s if the content creation tool creates the content from scratch using machine learning (source: weforum.org).”

2. Can I be plagiarized by AI?

“No, AI writing tools do not plagiarize. When you use an AI writing tool to generate ideas or write paragraphs for your blog post, the tool is using what it’s learned from reading millions of pages …

Please log in or sign up below to read the rest of the article.