Incident #457·Misinformation
Article-Writing AI by CNET Allegedly Committed Plagiarism
Description
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.
Actors
Alleged Deployers
- cnet
Alleged Developers
- unknown
Harmed Parties
- plagiarized-entities
- cnet-readers
Classification
Risk Domain
MisinformationRisk Subdomain
3.1. False or misleading information
MIT Risk Profile
AIUnintentionalPost-deployment
Source
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