{"id":7039,"date":"2023-10-06T20:08:43","date_gmt":"2023-10-06T20:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-365-life-hacks\/?p=7039"},"modified":"2025-04-02T04:36:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T04:36:15","slug":"is-using-ai-the-same-as-plagiarism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-365-life-hacks\/writing\/is-using-ai-the-same-as-plagiarism","title":{"rendered":"Is using AI the same as plagiarism?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"main-content\" data-grid=\"col-12\">\n<p class=\"c-paragraph-3\">Generative AI tools such as ChatGPT have become extremely popular, with the potential to disrupt nearly every industry and academic field. With a simple prompt, AI tools can generate written content of any length, related to any subject. However, is using AI plagiarism? 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