#cannotfix — Public Fediverse posts on home.social

@steveroyle
Clear and compelling.

“Using generative AI inherently exposes you to the risk of career-ending accusations of plagiarism.

“Before, I said that “generative AI repackages other writers’ ideas and words as your own, without giving them credit or citing appropriately.” A lot of people would say that constitutes plagiarism—especially people who make their living as creative writers. I generally agree with them, but that’s not the point of this post.

“What I’ve come to realize is that, regardless of any true similarity between your words and someone else’s, or your ideas and someone else’s, generative AI exposes you to risk that you, as a writer, cannot mitigate.

“This is true for three basic reasons:

“Plagiarism is subjective.

“Plagiarism is a continuum.

“Not all plagiarism accusations are made in good faith.”

End quote. The case of Gay, cited (NOT relitigated) makes the point (plagiarism accusations as a career-ender) even clearer. And you need to be able yo trust your co-authors - another reason for adopting an explicit standard.
Also mentions the original problem (or academic ‘sin’): the black box nature of generative AI/ LLMs such that you have no idea whose words or works it’s citing (so you can’t ‘fix’ it by adding the correct citations, for instance).

#careerEndingAccusationsOfPlagiarism #genAI #LLMs #plagiarism #AbsentCitation #cannotFix #cannotMitigate #trust