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Seems to me that GPT-2 and technology like it is going to lead to impossible to detect plagiarism eventually.
by empath75 7y ago
Seems to me that GPT-2 and technology like it is going to lead to impossible to detect plagiarism eventually.
- Nasrudith 7y agoReally information theory and limited sensible combinations make that an inevitability with good enough record keeping. There are only so many possible arrangements of words to make say a sensible arrangement of George Washington's biography that are coherently organized and remotely factual.
- inimino 7y agoAre you sure about this? There are only a few ways to state the year and place of birth, perhaps, but once you get beyond that, there are what might as well be infinitely many possible biographies of Washington. That being said, if all your new bio has to offer is a re-organization of the same well-established historical facts, it probably doesn't need to be written.
- ivan_ah 7y agoVery interesting... I never bought the idea of GPT-2 as a threat to humanity, since it's not able to produce meaningful original new content (it just produces thematically and grammatically correct filler), but if your primary goal is to plagiarize, then maybe the threat is real. Problem statement: given context C and sentence X, find a sentence X' that communicates the same idea as sentence X but in different words. This is not exactly GPT-2, but it seems doable. This kind of plagiarism would be difficult to detect. The plagiarizing party could say something like "I didn't copy or reproduce, I just used as input to a NN."
- empath75 7y agoTo be honest, I’ve had it come up with free verse poetry that was actually quite thought provoking.