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New report: 60% of OpenAI model's responses contain plagiarism (www.axios.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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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] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Isn't that basically what the current LLM AI fundamentally does? Just digests a bunch of text and gives a summary back in response to queries?

[–] General_Effort 7 points 10 months ago

No. It's not really clear what LLMs do, but it certainly depends on context.

What they fundamentally do is continue a text. That's what they were originally trained to do. Then they were fine-tuned to continue a chat log or respond to an instruction. To be able to do that, they have learned a lot. Unfortunately, we do not know what.

If you ask for a summary of some text, it will give you one; regardless of whether the text even exists.

The summary could be one written by a human that it has memorized. Or it could be complete nonsense, that it is making up on the fly. You never know.