“So when you present an AI system's ideas and words as your own with no critical thought, that is AI plagiarism to me.”
The Artificial Intelligence Show · August 2026
Paul Roetzer, co-host of The Artificial Intelligence Show, drawing a line on AI and plagiarism at the top of an episode about Anthropic's new watermarking system. His point: the problem isn't using AI to help write, it's using it without any of your own critical thinking.
Transcript
So when you present an AI system's ideas and words as your own with no critical thought, that is AI plagiarism to me. It's like that's the problem. It's not that you're using AI to help you. It's that you're not putting any critical thinking into it yourself and the words aren't yours. Welcome to the Artificial Intelligence Show, the podcast that helps your business grow smarter by making AI approachable and actionable. My name is Paul Raitzer. I'm the founder and CEO of SmarterX and Marketing AI Institute, and…
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