OpenAI launched its new AI-powered online search engine -- SearchGPT -- with the aim of supplanting "for specific search tasks" Google, Microsoft Bing and start-up Perplexity.
But the move is also raising concerns that it could open the door to plagiarism; AI-powered search engines have been accused of intentionally or unintentionally plagiarizing web-based content because the platforms scrape material and data from all over the web in real-time.
They can also generate content that closely mimics pre-existing content, according to Alon Yamin, CEO of AI-enabled plagiarism detection platform Copyleaks. That's because the large language model engines behind generative AI (genAI) are trained using existing content.