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tophamlast Friday at 6:06 PM3 repliesview on HN

"prepared to do what I do every single day in my actual scientific practice: type a prompt and receive a coherent, well-structured response that I would then lightly edit and present as my own thinking."

So, plagiarism. Daily.


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TheJCDentonlast Friday at 6:10 PM

This is satire

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handoflixuelast Friday at 6:18 PM

But when humans do it suddenly it's "standing on the shoulders of giants"

I don't get how you can possibly call it plagiarism if it produce a novel breakthrough - by definition, the existing knowledge base doesn't contain the new ideas generated in this process.

And we've proven it can handle complex, novel thinking when it solved a significant Erdos problem back in May: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ai-just-solved-an...

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talon8635last Friday at 7:09 PM

What’s going on with social queues today where so many people here are not immediately understanding this is clearly satire?

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