>First, it is plagiarism by definition. There's a bit of a motte-and-bailey situation here - the student clearly plagiarized if they passed off ChatGPT's work

>First, it is plagiarism by definition. There's a bit of a motte-and-bailey situation here - the student clearly plagiarized if they passed off ChatGPT's work as their own, but this has no bearing on the more interesting question of whether ChatGPT itself "plagiarizes" from its training set or creates new knowledge by synthesizing it. EDIT: Fixed the spelling of Motte-and-bailey