[LINK] ChatGPT

[Jan Whitaker]

On 28/01/2023 1:53 pm, Antony Barry wrote:
> I haven't used
> it long enough to get a feel of how well you can get it to document what
> its sources are for what it writes which is what I'll look at next. It is
> foolish to use it as an oracle without knowing what the sources are.

Well stated, Tony. Glad to hear your impressions.

One question among many I've had is around plagiarism and if the system 
is grabbing text slabs that would be easily compared with an internet 
search. When I was teaching, I didn't have access to the formal higher 
ed software platforms for automatic analysis, so my strategy was to copy 
longer pieces of text and do an exact match search and could often find 
'copying' without citation. So if ChatGPT isn't creating unique 
language, it would seem plagiarism is still discoverable.

Comments?

Jan