Banning ChatGPT: Is It Like Banning the Internet?
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The adoption of ChatGPT is on the rise, but so is its ban. Everyone from schools to academic conferences and even instant messaging apps and forums are banning the platform over ethical concerns. But is it really a necessary step or so much of a good thing?
If you look at some of the disruptions impacting the cultural industry, namely the internet in the early 2000s, concerns around plagiarism started to gain momentum as one could easily pull from an unlimited pool of information readily available. However, that didn’t stop the internet from existing. Instead, it gave birth to the ‘anti-plagiarism’ industry – the start of Turnitin – which started similarity checking, leveraging database pattern-matching technology developed from the Berkeley students’ doctoral research.
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