Article-Writing AI by CNET Allegedly Committed Plagiarism
November 11, 2022
CNET's use of generative AI to write articles allegedly ran into plagiarism issues, reproducing verbatim phrases from other published sources or making minor changes to existing texts such as altering capitalization, swapping out words for synonyms, and changing minor syntax.
- Alleged deployer
- cnet
- Alleged developer
- unknown
- Alleged harmed parties
- plagiarized-entities, cnet-readers
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/457
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