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ChatGPT and Copyright Concerns
While ChatGPT’s remarkable capabilities have been widely discussed, its liability for academic malpractices such as plagiarism remains a blind spot. The definition of plagiarism and whether using ChatGPT’s work falls within this definition is important in the domain of academics. Furthermore, the ownership of copyright for ChatGPT’s responses is still uncertain.
While ChatGPT’s remarkable capabilities have been widely discussed, its liability for academic malpractices such as plagiarism remains a blind spot. The definition of plagiarism and whether using ChatGPT’s work falls within this definition is important in the domain of academics. Furthermore, the ownership of copyright for ChatGPT’s responses is still uncertain.
ChatGPT, OpenAI’s language model trained to generate human-like responses to prompts, has stirred up dust from day one in academia. Students, researchers, and professors alike are astounded by the remarkable capabilities of the software and are equally confused by its long-term implications and the consequences that may ensue from an innocent mistake, which could amount to academic malpractice. At the same time, much has already been discussed about ChatGPT, its impact on education, its use in research, etc. What still remains a blind spot is ChatGPT’s liability for academic malpractices, particularly plagiarism and copyright violation. Consider the following case: a user provides ChatGPT with a prompt and receives a response. The user can now utilise this response as they may deem fit.
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