With the advent of generative artificial intelligence (GAI), the risk of plagiarism seems to be present in many fields, including the legal one.
HOW DOES GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE WORK?
Tools such as ChatGPT can produce text, video and images, but not out of nowhere.
They are trained with massive databases of content, which is often copyrighted.
Because of this, the ethical use of generative artificial intelligence has been brought into question, since some claim doing so might endorse plagiarism.
INACCURATE OR FALSE RESULTS
Once generative artificial intelligence is used, it might generate results that are inaccurate or completely false.
This has been reported to occur multiple times.
This has been reported to occur multiple times.
For example, it was noted that Google’s new search, powered by generative artificial intelligence, sometimes answered incorrectly to people’s queries.
In the legal field, judges and lawyers from all over the world, from Colombia to the UK, have admitted to using this tool.
Considering the possibility of incorrect results, digital literacy is needed to correctly use these tools, never forgetting to double check what is generated.
IS THE SOLUTION AI PLAGIARISM DETECTION SOFTWARES?
To detect whether someone has used AI in their work, there has been a development of AI detection softwares, which must not be confused with plagiarism detection.
The first ones determine the possibility that AI was involved in the creation of that work, and the second ones determine the possibility of it being a plagiarism of someone else’s work.
Many problems arise in this arena. In universities, some students who did not use generative artificial intelligence have been flagged as doing so. Other studies have shown that they are not very accurate.
Additionally, what happens if the work of a student who used generative artificial intelligence trained on copyright material is flagged as plagiarism?
Copyright law is entering a new era, in which generative artificial intelligence is advancing quickly.
To ensure proper protection, the legal field needs to keep up.
