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Article-Writing AI by CNET Allegedly Committed Plagiarism
- Occurred
- Nov 11, 2022
- Published
- Jan 20, 2023
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
CNET's use of generative AI to write articles allegedly ran into plagiarism issues, reproducing verbatim phrases from other published sources or making minor changes to existing texts such as altering capitalization, swapping out words for synonyms, and changing minor syntax.
Developers
- Unknown
Deployers
- CNET
Harmed parties
- plagiarized entities
- CNET readers
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 85%
Rationale: Generative AI plagiarism incident involving text generation failures.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8