Plagiarism means publishing or presenting another source’s content as your own without appropriate attribution or original revision. Website writing needs special care because AI tools may occasionally reproduce whole paragraphs from the internet, and rushed editing can leave copied material in place. section 4.2.4
Use a simple review routine before publishing:
- Revise AI-generated drafts in your own words instead of copying them unchanged. section 4.2.4
- Run the finished text through a plagiarism detector. Microsoft Word’s Editor has a Similarity section; Copyleaks and Grammarly offer additional checks. section 4.2.4
- Investigate flagged passages, then rewrite, remove, or appropriately attribute material before publication. section 4.2.4
- Do not paste another person’s text, artwork, music, or other work into a site without considering permission and attribution requirements. section 8.7
A practical website check
Suppose an AI tool supplies a product description. Treat it as a draft, rewrite it to match the site’s own voice, and check it with Word’s Similarity tool or another detector. If a paragraph matches an online source, replace it with original wording or address attribution and permission before publishing. section 4.2.4
Plagiarism and copyright overlap but are not identical questions. Original text, art, music, and other tangible work generally receive copyright protection, while facts and some underlying elements—such as a recipe’s ingredients—may not. Laws vary, so difficult cases require legal advice. section 8.7
