ChatGPT and other AI bots get their data, ultimately, from us, the people who provide data to the web. Which is why, of course, an article I asked ChatGPT* to write didn’t fare all that well in the plagiarism stakes. I checked if my websites had been scraped, and this what I discovered:

I suppose I ought to be flattered. To read more about the data scraping, and to check if your website has contributed, go to this Washington Post article. I read about this in Next Draft, edition of April 20th.

• That article appeared in Eclecticism. In it I also parsed the article through a few AI-detectors.