ChatGPT is an amazing conversational large language model with tremendous capabilities for interacting with and performing various natural language processing tasks. With its new version, ChatGPT becomes even more and more powerful. The latest version, ChatGPT4.o, has state-of-the art AI technology that enables it to perform a wide variety of complex tasks from the ability to understand and respond to audio inputs to analyzing and generating images. However, since its launch to the public back in November 2023, concerns about copyright and plagiarism have been in the rise (e.g., Kasneci et al. 2023).
Instances of ChatGPT generating plagiarazed content has been widely reported in the media as well as in research across different disciplines. For instance, in their 2023 research paper “ChatGPT for Good? On Opportunities and Challenges of Large Language Models for Education”, Kasneci et al. (2023) found out that ChatGPT can blurt out plagiarized content from the source materials fed into it.
While there is no silver bullet solution to detect plagiarism in AI generated content because these language models are trained to produce ‘unique’ content but there are different ways to help mitigate the problem. I use the word unique in a restricted sense because what ChaGPT does is it uses information from its training database and sometimes even scrape the internet and formulates it in different ways.
The problem with it especially when it come to scholarly writing where the concept of authorship is key (Levene, 2023), is that it fails to credit its sources and if you ask it for references and citations chances are it will get some of them wrong (Pearle, 2022) and in certain instances it can go all the way to fabricating them (Bhattacharyya, 2023).
ChatGPT Plagiarism Checker
I already covered various tools that you can use to detect AI content and plagiarism in students work. Some of my favourite include GPT0, Copyleaks, Originality, and Turnitin. In todays’s post, I am introducing you to this ChatGPT plugin which does a great job detecting plagiarized content.
In fact, it goes beyond mere detection to offering suggestions for paraphrasing possible instances of plagiarized content and often provides places in the Internet where similar content is found. Plus, it provides a sample of revised text for your consideration.
This plugin is called ChatGPT Plagiarism Checker and it is free and lives within the interface of your ChaGPT. Simply copy and paste text into and it and you will get instant results. Besides checking for plagiarism in students work, you can also use it to verify whether the output you get from your own use of ChatGPT is plagiarism-proof. I tried the plugin on various examples and it turns out to do a pretty good job so far. Check it out and share with your colleagues.
References
- Bhattacharyya, M., Miller, V. M., Bhattacharyya, D., & Miller, L. E. (2023). High Rates of Fabricated and Inaccurate References in ChatGPT-Generated Medical Content. Cureus, 15(5), e39238. https://doi.org/10.7759/cureus.39238
- Kasneci et al. (2023).ChatGPT for good? On opportunities and challenges of large language models for education. Learning and Individual Differences , 103, 1-12, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lindif.2023.102274
- Levene, A.(2023). Artificial intelligence and authorship. COPE. https://publicationethics.org/news/artificial-intelligence-and-authorship
- Pearl, M. (2022).The ChatGPT chatbot from OpenAI is amazing, creative, and totally wrong. Mashable. https://me.mashable.com/tech/22662/the-chatgpt-chatbot-from-openai-is-amazing-creative-and-totally-wrong
