# Is Artificial Intelligence (AI) plagiarizing? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Tags:** ai\ **Created:** [December 8, 2023, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-artificial-intelligence-ai-plagiarizing/994299 "2023-12-08T13:51:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 41
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2023, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-artificial-intelligence-ai-plagiarizing/994299/41 "2023-12-09T13:58:49Z")
Quite right overall there @Sam_Stone. I went on sabbatical from here awhile ago largely concerned not about AI, but just the advertising dossier programs that were scraping the internet to build up a saleable profile on all of us. This will only get worse with time, and as @Stranger_On_A_Train said, 100% of whatever each of us has ever put on the net has already been slurped more than once. And that can never be undone. We can each change our future by disappearing from the internet. Which would entail also giving up having a ~~mobile phone~~ personal surveillance device. But our past work is an open book that’s already been read and photocopied for their use. For quite a variety of "they"s of widely varying malevolence. As to my return here, and elsewhere on the net, and my using customer loyalty programs all over the place for the pittance of compensation they offer for all that sweet sweet data, that was simply me realizing resistance was futile. I’m going down in the same ship as all the rest of us. I do think it’d be really interesting to get a personal GPT and train it on my corpus and turn it loose writing practice posts. I’m sure I’d be fascinated by some and horrified by others. As to your comment about Alzheimers, we had a thread 4 months ago sharing tales of our cognitive changes. I came away from that feeling a lot more normal about the changes I see in myself as I pass age 65. > [@Witnessing your own mental decay](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/witnessing-your-own-mental-decay/988436): > > past 50 here… retaining names was never my strong suit … but I am slowly moving into “embarrasing” territory I was always really good in “ballpark mental math” (e.g. getting pretty close to the actual result of 72% of 450 … I am still better than most, but by no means as sharp as 15 years ago my english is sliding, too (not my 1st language) … sometimes a need to pause a second for a “there or their” check, etc… party amplified by a certain change in “not giving many fuggs” about my spelling di… At the same time, nw that I’m retired I did just get a full neuro- and memory work-up. As my PCP put it > You’re smarter than the average bear and could lose a lot more than some other folks could before it got obvious. _I_ think you’re fine, but if _you_ don’t think you’re fine, let’s get a baseline now and check again in a couple years. Can’t hurt, might help. You, **Sam** (and plenty of other Dopers in this thread) are also a smarter-than-average-bear and might benefit from the same process. You can’t fight what you can’t see and don’t know about. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-artificial-intelligence-ai-plagiarizing/994299)._