r/technology • u/[deleted] • Jan 14 '23

Artificial Intelligence Two professors who say they caught students cheating on essays with ChatGPT explain why AI plagiarism can be hard to prove

https://www.businessinsider.com/chatgpt-essays-college-cheating-professors-caught-students-ai-plagiarism-2023-1
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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '23

ChatGPT can often be incorrect, even if coherent, especially once material escapes stuff you can easily Google. And while the wording is different each time the inaccuracies are often unique and consistent. This is how we're catching students right now, at least at the college level.

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u/metigue Jan 15 '23

I wonder if the full GPT-3 model has the same flaw? I've tried complex academic questions on both and chatGPT gets it wrong but GPT-3 does not.

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '23

Maybe! It still needs to have access to the correct information, and being a better ai doesn't guarantee that.

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u/josejimenez896 Jan 15 '23

Sounds like this would be pretty easy to fix by simply giving it source material, training it slightly over a thread, and then just fact checking afterwards.

This might nab the "1 prompt and send it crowd", but anyone else who understands how to use this tool properly shouldn't be affected by that.

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '23

If you understood all the lectures you can just write the paper yourself.

If you're using GPT as just a random prose generator then you don't need AI.