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Brit mathematician lets AI agent loose with credit card – cue password leaks, CAPTCHA chaos and more (www.theregister.com)

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[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 35 points 6 months ago (9 children)

Huh, this borders on plagiarism.

This article is essentially a transcription of this video https://youtu.be/WnzR5aOElvw

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[–] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 17 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Also, how are you gonna plagiarize Hannah Fry? She's the fucking best.

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[–] Bromeliadventures@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

Would that not make her more likely to be plagiarised? Why would you plagiarise a boring idiot, what would be the point?

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[–] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

It's more of a "the audacity...", not a "why would you..."

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[–] gasgiant@lemmy.ml 11 points 6 months ago (5 children)

The article is about Professor Hannah Fry's work.

That would be the same Professor Hannah Fry in the video.....

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[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 6 points 6 months ago (4 children)

The article is essentially a text version of that video.

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[–] dan@upvote.au 10 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

Lazy reporting. I reckon they gave ChatGPT the video URL and asked it to write an article about it. AIs like ChatGPT can scrape the subtitles from YouTube videos to generate a transcript, then reword it enough to create a draft of a news article.

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[–] gasgiant@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 months ago

Yep this.

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[–] gasgiant@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

Ok. Still not plagiarism though. They've referred to the original author and credited their work.

Other post is correct. At worst it's lazy clickbaiting.

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[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 7 points 6 months ago

Thats why I'm saying borders on. I know it's not technically plagiarizing, but they really did just lift the video into text form and call it their own article.

Yes they credit her, but what did they actually add themselves?

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