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Re:ChatGPT in Academic Writing by ravi-delia on Sunday March 05, 2023 @06:45PM (#35035535)
I'd rather not include it at all, for exactly that reason. It's just a writing tool- the paper is either correct or incorrect on the same basis as any other paper. We include bibliographies to ensure that the relevant scientific data is present, but I don't think there's any reason to say that a non-reproducible abstract isn't science
Re:ChatGPT in Academic Writing by kergonath on Sunday March 05, 2023 @07:17PM (#35035823)
It belongs in the acknowledgments, along with Bob’s wife who did a bit of proofreading, Steve McProfessor who had a chat with the authors once, and whatever software was used for the figures.
Re:ChatGPT in Academic Writing by clbrmbr on Sunday March 05, 2023 @07:21PM (#35035864)
This. It’s crazy that people are thinking we should _credit_ the model as if it were an author. It’s a tool, and should be usable without limit.

It would however be nice to have a mode where any output that matches some existing text in the training set could be highlighted, to help one avoid unintentional plagiarism.

Re:ChatGPT in Academic Writing by jpwagner on Sunday March 05, 2023 @11:34PM (#35037544)
Plagiarism will undergo a change in definition.
Re:ChatGPT in Academic Writing by anticensor on Monday March 06, 2023 @02:41AM (#35038450)
Plagiarism used to be norm until mass similarity checking has been available.
Re:ChatGPT in Academic Writing by clbrmbr on Monday March 13, 2023 @06:26AM (#35133661)
In published writing?

If so, we could pattern match historically, and discover the base rate of plagiarism.