🥟 Chao-Down #2: Plagiarism and ChatGPT

Welcome to the second edition of the “Chao”-Downs newsletter, a bite-sized digest of stories at the intersection of Tech, AI, Business and Life. It is the companion to Chaos Theory, the weekly newsletter featuring longform, original content from your resident Chaos Coordinator.

Today’s edition features many stories on plagiarism. While people have been copying other people’s work since the dawn of homework, the proliferation of AI writing tools like ChatGPT, Copy.AI, and Jasper make it that much easier for people to copy/paste and claim authorship for content that they did not write themselves.

The implications for this are far-reaching and deserve their own post, but it certainly is a space to keep an eye on and an area ripe for innovation. 

-Alex

What happened in AI? 📰

All about plagiarism:

• Abstracts written by ChatGPT fools some scientists

  • Reviewers could only identify 68% of ChatGPT abstracts, which was about the same as software designed to detect AI-generated content

• Independent Journalist finds that an AI was used to plagiarize him 

• University student gets caught plagiarizing a 4000 word assignment using ChatGPT. (Reddit)

• CNET's been using AI to write articles — and they're not alone

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

• Free course on Reinforcement Learning and Optimal Control by Dimitri P. Bertsekas

• Tutorial on how to fine tune a Stable Diffusion model using Keras

• Guide on OpenAI rate limits and how developers can handle batch requests/retries

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

OperandAI for Teams launches, allowing teams to search over the contents of Slack, Notion, Discord and more all within Google. (link)

AI Generated Unit Tests by AirTest (link)

Professional Level Photography with Booth AI (link)

The Latest In AI Research 💡

• Scaling Laws for Generative Mixed-Modal Language Models (Link)

• Language Does More Than Describe: On The Lack Of Figurative Speech in Text-To-Image Models (arxiv.org) (Link)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

Russian Hackers Try to Bypass ChatGPT's Restrictions For Malicious Purposes (Link)

The Eggconomoy - Inflation, Eggs, and Bifurcession (Substack)

Long COVID: major findings, mechanisms and recommendations (Nature)

One Last Bite 😋