Plagiarism

As I learn more about ChatGPT I see that in simple terms it is a souped up version of Google. It can access far more material much faster and can use that material to carry out your instructions. One of the results is the ability to catch those who plagiarize. If you repeat anything that was previously published the Chat will find it even if it is only a few words. All the people who have published before this new technology are now in jeopardy if they have copied. There are now people sitting alone in their basements searching for copiers and waiting with baited anticipation their opportunity to expose these cheaters. The highest risk groups are professors who by their job description have to publish and if they got a little lazy along the way and sneaked in a little of of another persons work they will tarred and feathered. But coming to their defense will be the oppressed who will maintain that plagiarism is OK. These will be minorities who feel that the past writings were so filled with White supremacy that the rules were put in place just to make new ideas less palatable. Princeton like all universities has a honor code that the students want to dismantle. Now, however, an op-ed at the Daily Princetonian, the student newspaper, says that code must be “dismantled”, and for two reasons. First, the Honor Code mirrors the procedures of a criminal justice system that, says author Emilly Santos, disproportionately hurts African-Americans and impecunious Americans.  Second, at Princeton the Code disproportionately affects first-generation low-income students (FLI), “students who often also belong to racial minorities.