Regarding the plagiarism comments, it does make me feel uncomfortable, but there are four safeguards that could be put into place that would completely alleviate my discomfort with an AI using my words.
- The AI says that the information was aggregated (paraphrased) from comments by [users]. I would rather this than a misquote, though adding quotation marks around direct quotes would be ideal.
- A statement provided with the AI summary that distinctly says that information may be misquoted or paraphrased incorrect.
- Links to the original posts that had the original wording and the context of that wording. This may need to be accompanied by duplication detection so that only unique comments are linked to. Even better is if each word or phrase was either hyperlinked to the original comment or hovering over the text showed a popup of the full original comment.
- A flag option to indicate when the AI is misquoting a user. This would allow further improvements to the AI to help guide it to quoting the source correctly. Alternatively, this could also be used to stop the AI from quoting the particular comment entirely if all instances of the use of the comment are misquoted in a severe enough way.