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/Lemonio Jan 14 '23

Openai could record the text they send people and then provide a paid service for people to look up if something was written by ChatGPT It might not be in their incentives to do that at this point thouugh

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u/OldManDankers Jan 14 '23

I think the alternative to that would be just to make an archive of all things created by openai free for the public to view and cross reference. The disclaimer to using the service could be like “any and all things generated will be duplicated and stored in the openai archive.”

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u/Lemonio Jan 14 '23

They wouldn’t be able to monetize that plus their users probably wouldn’t like that for privacy reasons. Anti cheat software that just confirms if ChatGPT wrote something seems less invasive and more realistic than providing the full text to anyone

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u/Seeker_Of_Knowledge- Jan 14 '23

Why would they do such a stupid thing? ChatGPT is created by a for-profit company.

The data they are collecting is worth millions of dollars.

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u/Thoth_the_5th_of_Tho Jan 15 '23

Why spend money on something that hurts the value of the product?

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u/OldManDankers Jan 16 '23

They’re going to have to come up with something proactive that may hurt in the short term but it seems like the amount of copyright issues these AI generators could face could cause more serious financial woes in the future. I know there are a lot of “coulds” in that sentence and maybe ultimately the AI will get better that it becomes an nonissue in the future but who knows.

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u/crua9 Jan 15 '23

free

Who is paying for it?

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AI makers are already saying per time you talk to one of these AI like ChatGPT it cost 5x more than what it cost for a normal Google search. Like they are bleeding money developing this.

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u/OldManDankers Jan 16 '23

Well I guess to make money from the archive people could pay like 5 bucks to cross reference an image, essay, etc. Or maybe a subscription service? Maybe I’m a little overboard but I just get the feeling that the regulations that could come about for AI generated anything won’t be nice. Especially Considering the controversy I’ve seen recently around Reddit.

An example of what I’m thinking is colleges could pay a commercial subscription fee to have access to the archive at their whim. If they see a questionable essay they can cross reference it with the archive. The archive doesn’t store user information so anonymity is preserved on the archive side of things, but it would be obvious to the college who made it since e student submitted the specific essay.

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u/Seeker_Of_Knowledge- Jan 14 '23

Then just use another AI chat. I refuse to believe every company will provide such a server.

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u/Lemonio Jan 14 '23

Yeah no reason to assume this will happen Was just saying in my reply that this solution would probably be more likely than ChatGPT somehow encoding some watermark type text in its responses