Outside the education world\u2019s concerns about plagiarism and cheating, most worries about ChatGPT have been around how it will affect businesses and employees. Will I lose my job? Can we afford to invest in the paid ChatGPT Plus or other AI tools? Are my employees ready for it?<\/p>\n
But the education world\u2019s concerns with academic integrity are also relevant to your business. Claiming other people\u2019s work as your own or sharing inaccurate information because you haven\u2019t \u201cdone your homework\u201d have serious implications for your brand, your reputation and your financials.<\/strong><\/p>\n Schools have rules about plagiarism and citing sources. In the mildest cases, students might be reprimanded and told to redo assignments. In more serious cases, they could receive a lower grade. At the college level, plagiarism could even lead to expulsion.<\/p>\n Of course, businesses don\u2019t, and shouldn\u2019t, have the same kind of control over their employees that schools have over students. However, just like schools, they should put ChatGPT content policies in place to decrease the likelihood that an employee will, even unintentionally, put their name to work that belongs to someone else, contributes to misinformation or spreads outright falsehoods.<\/p>\n No one can tell you exactly what policies to put in place for plagiarism, disinformation or any other workplace issue. Your exact ChatGPT content policy must reflect your business\u2019s culture and needs.<\/strong> But generative AI tools like ChatGPT<\/a> are a new universe.<\/p>\n In this blog, we\u2019ll share some questions to consider while crafting your ChatGPT content guidelines and policies, which should be included and communicated with your other content policies.<\/p>\n To reiterate, what your employees learned in school still applies. Putting your name to work you did not create is not OK.<\/p>\n But in the business world, the stakes are much higher. Plagiarism, copyright and trademark infringement, and other intellectual property laws can have costly results. The challenge today is that the world of ChatGPT has made it even harder to distinguish between truly original content and content that only appears original because ChatGPT rearranged it.<\/p>\n One policy matter to consider is whether you will require authors to disclose when they have used ChatGPT to help generate content, regardless of the use case.<\/strong> Rather than taking authority from the writer\u2019s voice, doing so establishes trust and provides context for readers. It also provides a backstop in case someone charges you with even inadvertently using straight AI-generated content.<\/p>\n Such statements may range from a simple \u201cWe used ChatGPT to help create this content\u201d to identifying which sections of a piece of writing received AI assistance. You should also consider whether you will establish limits on how much content AI can inspire \u2014 0 percent? 5 percent? 10 percent? \u2014 and how you will calculate those limits. (Though they aren\u2019t perfect, tools like ZeroGPT<\/a> and GPTZero<\/a> can provide estimates. You may want to explain which tool you will rely on to determine percentages and how you will handle appeals.)<\/p>\nHow Will Your ChatGPT Content Policy Discourage Plagiarism?<\/h2>\n
How Will You Encourage Authenticity in ChatGPT-Generated Content?<\/h2>\n