#AI#GenerativeAI#Search#Perplexity#Plagiarism#Journalism#Media#News: "AI-powered search startup Perplexity appears to be plagiarizing journalists’ work through its newly launched feature, Perplexity Pages, which lets people curate content on a particular topic. Multiple posts that have been “curated” by the Perplexity team on its platform are strikingly similar to original stories from multiple publications, including Forbes, CNBC and Bloomberg. The posts, which have already gathered tens of thousands of views, do not mention the publications by name in the article text — the only attributions are small, easy-to-miss logos that link out to them.
For instance, a Perplexity aggregation of Forbes’ exclusive reporting on Eric Schmidt’s stealth drone project contains several fragments that appear to have been lifted, including a custom illustration. Over the past several months, Forbes has broken a series of stories on the former Google CEO’s secretive efforts to develop AI-guided aircraft for the battlefield, and this week reported that Schmidt had poached talent from SpaceX, Apple and Google, and has been testing his drones in the wealthy Silicon Valley town of Menlo Park." https://www.forbes.com/sites/sarahemerson/2024/06/07/buzzy-ai-search-engine-perplexity-is-directly-ripping-off-content-from-news-outlets/
"Two years ago, I wrote about Jeff Dieschburg, an artist in Luxembourg who took [w]ork by others, made trivial edits, and won awards with paintings of the results."
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Necheles rises to renew Trump's objection to Daniels testifying about any "sexual details," which she says has no relevance and is prejudicial.
By details, Merchan asks, more than just "we had sex"? Yes, Necheles says.
Remember Meredith McIver? When Melanie Trump plagiarized Michelle Obama for her 2016 speech at the RNC convention, #MeredithMcIver took the fall,
"Team Trump at first adamantly denied that there was any plagiarism — but fessed up Wednesday when McIver admitted the mistake." #plagiarism#TrumpTrial
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Its all #plagiarism Big corps are cutting, copying and pasting other people's work and they are doing it without compensating the folks that are actually doing or did the work.
The #bigCorps are creating a new set of laws just for themselves. The theory is that when you steal enough stuff from enough people it becomes normal, expected and OK.
See #conservative playbook chapter tRump, rule 1; anything done while concentrating wealth is OK.
Content mill megacorp Valnet owns sites like Gamenet, Screenrant, MakeUseOf and many others. Authors are paid sweatshop wages to mass produce SEO-friendly garbage articles, as this YouTube video reveals.
Video creator fireb0rn interviewed multiple current and former writers and reveals a class-action lawsuit accusing the sites of paying less than minimum wage: https://youtu.be/lMMSuPvjvag
I'm taking a grad school classes for my #MSIT degree at #PurdueGlobal - it is a remote class, so we are required to make posts on a forum, then post two responses to others.
Annnd, one of my cohort obviously used bad AI saying nothing to make his initial post summarizing an article.
"The implementation of the BI Agile starts from the start, which should be considered a key element of the successful BI project."
So, I posted on his thread, asking him to explain his summary.
But I'm a little mad about it. I'm working my butt off for an A, and this dude is pretty obviously using AI.
Another example from his summary: "Attestation carried out by practitioners, with long term professional expertise, will make possible the confirmation of effectiveness of this process in enterprise business environment that is continuously changing." 🙄
I asked him about a couple of his ridiculous theses in the forum, as if he wrote them.
#ScienceDirect and #Elsevier clearly didn't review this #chemistry paper about #batteries. The intro starts with "Certainly, here is a possible introduction for your topic:".
This lack of oversight erodes #trust in #science. The paper needs to be retracted and the authors sanctioned immediately.
#AI#GenerativeAI#Copyright#IP#Plagiarism: "The test results showed GPT-4 completed book texts 60% of the time, and generated the first passage 26% of the time. Meanwhile, Claude completed book texts 16% of the time, but generated the first-passage 0% of the time. Mixtral generated the first passage of books when prompted 38% of the time, and completed passages 6% of the time. Llama generated first passages and completed texts 10% of the time.
“Perhaps what was surprising is that we found that OpenAI’s GPT-4, which is arguably the most powerful model that’s being used by a lot of companies and also individual developers, produced copyrighted content on 44% of prompts that we constructed,” Rebecca Qian, cofounder and chief technology officer at Patronus AI, told CNBC.
OpenAI, Mistral, Meta, and Anthropic did not immediately respond to a request for comment."
An accusation of plagiarism has been made about Alexander Payne's "The Holdovers," which is nominated for the Best Screenplay award at this year's Oscars. Simon Stephenson, who wrote "Luca" and "Paddington 2," emailed the Writers Guild of America's senior director of credits on Jan. 12 to discuss the issue, referring to the "Holdovers" script as a "line-by-line" plagiarism from his screenplay, "Frisco," which was doing the rounds in Hollywood in 2013 and which Stephenson says Payne had seen. Variety has the exclusive.
#AI#GenerativeAI#Chatbots#ChatGPT#Plagiarism#Copyright#IP: "Copyleaks attempts to turn detecting plagiarism from "I know it when I see it" into an exact science.
The company uses a proprietary scoring method that aggregates the rate of identical text, minor changes, paraphrased text, and other factors and then assigns content a "similarity score."
Per the report, for GPT-3.5, "45.7% of all outputs contained identical text, 27.4% contained minor changes, and 46.5% had paraphrased text."
"A score of 0% signifies that all of the content is original, whereas a score of 100% means that none of the content is original," per the report.
Zoom in: Copyleaks asked GPT-3.5 for around a thousand outputs, each around 400 words, across 26 subjects.
The individual GPT-3.5 output with the highest similarity score was in computer science (100%), followed by physics (92%), and psychology (88%)."
As both musician and writer, I’m drawn to Odin as an embodiment of the creative force. As a practitioner of Ásatrú, I can’t support companies that steal the work of human artists to generate disposable dross.