Chat GPT
Chat GPT, if you think about it, is the greatest plagiarizer ever, besides Biden. They have actually developed a computer that studies everything that was written, learns from it, and writes just like that. In other words it is copying choice bits of sentences and putting them all together in a way that you wouldn't know it wasn't a live person.
So the question is, will the advent of Chat GPT make plagiarism more common, more acceptable, more everyday? I think so. I think we will come to recognize a "generally accepted style" and Chat GPT will be right in the center of it.
In a way, grammar correctors have already done that. They have ruthlessly gone after perfectly acceptable constructions until they have become outside the norm, outside the machine, outside the standard way. So now you have a kind of technology-crowned style. Same with Chat GPT.
And it's all because somebody somewhere wrote an acceptable story that could be copied. That's an enormous responsibility - to be a content producer in the time before Chat GPT comes to write all the content - because you know you'll be the model for generations of machine-generated language from now on.
It's awesome.
So the question is, will the advent of Chat GPT make plagiarism more common, more acceptable, more everyday? I think so. I think we will come to recognize a "generally accepted style" and Chat GPT will be right in the center of it.
In a way, grammar correctors have already done that. They have ruthlessly gone after perfectly acceptable constructions until they have become outside the norm, outside the machine, outside the standard way. So now you have a kind of technology-crowned style. Same with Chat GPT.
And it's all because somebody somewhere wrote an acceptable story that could be copied. That's an enormous responsibility - to be a content producer in the time before Chat GPT comes to write all the content - because you know you'll be the model for generations of machine-generated language from now on.
It's awesome.
posted by tom @ 7:37 PM
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This weblog is about my efforts, sometimes futile, to teach about plagiarism to international students. Deeper in the blog is a documented story (if the newspaper articles still are there) about how a really nice guy made a mistake...however, that's water under the bridge. My classes have always been full of nice people who made mistakes.
