ChatGPT: high-tech plagiarism awaits academic publishing green light. Non-fungible token (NFT) can be a way out

Abstract

Purpose

ChatGPT from OpenAI is an amazing example of machine learning technology. This technology has now become an important issue for high-tech plagiarism concern. Indeed, there are many concerns about using this tool, perhaps using other technologies to make ChatGPT safer. Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) may be a way out. This paper aims to discuss such an alternative.

Design/methodology/approach

To preventing with high-tech plagiarism created by the ChatGPT tool two ways can help schools, universities and scientific centers to prevent academic plagiarism: first, by banning ChatGPT and adjusting teaching styles, and second, by using detecting AI-produced content. In this viewpoint, the authors suggest a third way that can be a way out.

Findings

NFTs technology has the ability to add a non-fungibility feature to any digital object (image, text or video). Therefore, any text produced by artificial intelligence tools can be given a specific NFT code. With this work, the authors add a feature to texts produced by artificial intelligence, that is, the non-fungibility feature.

Originality/value

In this viewpoint, how and why NFTs may be a usefully added value in preventing acts of high-tech plagiarism on ChatGPT is discussed.

Citation

Mohammadzadeh, Z., Ausloos, M. and Saeidnia, H.R. (2023), "ChatGPT: high-tech plagiarism awaits academic publishing green light. Non-fungible token (NFT) can be a way out", Library Hi Tech News, Vol. 40 No. 7, pp. 12-14. https://doi.org/10.1108/LHTN-04-2023-0067