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I see Google's deal with Reddit is going just great...

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[–] 25 points 2 years ago* (6 children)

The normal way to reproduce information which can only be found in a specific source would be to cite that source when quoting or paraphrasing it.

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  • [+] -9 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    But the system isn't designed for that, why would you expect it to do so? Did somebody tell the OP that these systems work by citing a source, and the issue is that it doesn't do that?

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago

    But the system isn’t designed for that, why would you expect it to do so?

    It, uh... sounds like the flaw is in the design of the system, then? If the system is designed in such a way that it can't help but do unethical things, then maybe the system is not good to have.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    "[massive deficiency] isn't a flaw of the program because it's designed to have that deficiency"

    it is a problem that it plagiarizes, how does saying "it's designed to plagiarize" help????

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