# Request: don't put ChatGPT or other AI-generated content in non-AI threads

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**Created:** [December 7, 2023, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/request-dont-put-chatgpt-or-other-ai-generated-content-in-non-ai-threads/994241 "2023-12-07T15:15:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2023, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/request-dont-put-chatgpt-or-other-ai-generated-content-in-non-ai-threads/994241/54 "2023-12-08T13:10:31Z")

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> [@wolfpup](#):
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> …the basic ethical principle that should always apply here is as old as writing itself, and is simply “never plagiarize, and provide attribution to content that isn’t your own”.

> _Good artists borrow, great artists steal._ ~Pablo Picasso

Plagiarizing is clearly wrong but is that what AI is doing?

As a student you were told to write papers on various topics. You’d read things from various sources and then distill them into your paper.

Isn’t that what AI does?

Isn’t that kinda what we do here?

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