Count reviews generated with AI (and/or where the reviewer clearly did not read the book) as plagiarized
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Scott Hughes
Add this note to the "Is the review plagiarized?" field on the editor scorecard form for editors:
"If a reviewer uses AI to write a review of a book they did not read, or otherwise obviously did not read the book, then that is also considered to be plagiarism, since (1) the reviewer is plagiarizing the AI system without proper credit, (2) since the AI chatbots themselves are arguably just plagiarizing the training data they were given to generate the pseudo-original mashed-up content, (3) since the reviewer presumably did not read the book, and most of all (4) since no matter how you look at it the reviewer is absolutely committing dishonest fraud and needs to be banned asap if they are using AI to write their reviews. With all that said, do <strong>not</strong> mark a review as plagiarized and/or AI-generated unless you are certain. In other words, do <strong>not</strong> mark a review as plagiarized if you merely suspect that it may be AI-generated or merely believe that it is 'probably' AI-generated. Probably is not good enough. You need to be 100% certain the reviewer used AI, committed plagiarism, and/or didn't read the whole book. The best evidence/proof that a reviewer used AI and/or committed other plagiarism is if the reviewer did not actually read the book (since then the reviewer couldn't have written a real review), and the best evidence/proof of that is if the reviewer writes something in the review, blurb, or other notes that is objectively untrue."
Scott Hughes
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I have just implemented this change.