#content plagiarism

[setaflow]

Gay pride happens in June and gay wrath happens whenever hbomberguy drops a 3+ hour video essay about a specific topic

[textuarcom]

Unraveling the consequences: Discover why plagiarism in content is a one-way ticket to credibility loss and reputation damage. Originality not only speaks volumes but also shapes an authentic brand voice!

[birbbeans]

Knowing people are making six figures by copying and pasting Wikipedia articles, stealing information and tracing art, I now feel more proud of every single piece of work I create and engagement I receive because I do not resort to theft for my work!

[hwangyeddeongie]

tfw someone is about to get 20k likes on twitter by stealing your tumblr post word for word

[youcallyourselfafilmcritic]

The point of Hbomb's video: Plagiarism is the symptom of a larger problem of churning out easy to make content for the purposes of revenue and hurts smaller marginalised creators and we should uplift them

The likely outcome of Hbomb's video: James Somerton takedowns

[fazedlight]

Plagiarism is so deeply fucked up. Writers (and all creators) pour so much of their love and effort into these works. Reposters take it for... what? Internet points?

The fandom-swap fics are especially baffling to me. Do you understand your characters so little that you think copy-pasting from a completely different fandom will still capture them?

This goes beyond having different interpretations, or exploration, or reinvention (all of which have their place in fandom). The writing was literally not written with your characters in mind.

What does that say about the thought you put into them?

[clove-pinks]

It happened AGAIN: a Facebook page with 83,000+ followers, "Attire's Mind," ripped off the content of one of my dress history posts.

Compare my 1840s readymade men's wear post with the inferior copy (that omits sources and links).

Today it was the Paris Musées redingote post. Notice how "Attire's Mind" uses my image edits (again), and also eliminates my citation while loosely copying the text.

If you are blogging about dress history here, especially if you are a small and obscure blog like yours truly, check "Attire's Mind" for stolen content.

It is particularly aggravating since he is clearly going the James Somerton route with this: stealing the work of passionate but little-known creatives, and making an inferior version that incidentally removes citations.

[betterbemeta]

I think that if James Somerton 'lasted' a little longer, he would have been really into ChatGPT. Because that's a way to automate what he already did. Whether or not he was self-aware of how his actions were dishonest he (or a lackey) still needed to go to third parties directly to lift their writing. He still needed to bullshit weird correlations between nazis and closet homosexuality (?) with his own imagination. If he had been able to just, ask ChatGPT to write him something he could have eliminated all effort from his 'work' while obscuring the sources/'self-knowledge of a lack of sources' even from himself.

What he really liked being was a mouthpiece: a personality that could receive fame for reciting plagiarized and made-up stuff in a charismatic way. He invested a lot into cameras and styling and that type of thing. At the end of the day, everything he made was just 'content' to sludge through his outward facing presentation and he didn't have to really understand any of it.

Just like ChatGPT, copyright law didn't stop him, and his videos were circulated for years after people began complaining about him because of how 'easy' he was to watch which means even the minimum effort to learn that he lacked integrity was arduous by comparison. The low barrier for audience entry mattered way more than knowledge of his grifting for a relatively long time.

When people complain about ChatGPT 'stealing' from sources and 'hallucinating' we should think less about 'it's bad because it's illegal/it's violating copyright' or 'it's bad because it will lie to you with the authority of an impartial machine', because real human beings can create the same result albeit with a lot more front-end effort. ChatGPT is not special in this way.

We should be talking about how filling every sphere of life with Robo-Somertons is a bad idea, and how terrifying it is to see 'James Somerton behavior' as what corporate executives consider to be peak performance.

[pomeraniandancer]

I kinda feel like Hbomberguy was writing a Master's Thesis on plagiarism and youtube content creators, and then thought "Hey, I could make an accompanying video to go with this!" and then when he was almost don making it he decided "Y'know what, this shouldn't be behind a paywall like my thesis will be, I'll throw it up on youtube." And then he just. Posted it. The week before Finals Week for most American college students. Like a massive "This Is Your Final Warning" to all HS and above students who may be considering plagiarizing their final papers or something.

[the-witchs-word]

I've seen other creators and bloggers putting disclaimers that they do not consent to having their content being used to train AI. This is an amazing idea. So, I am sharing a few variations of disclaimers I am going to start using.

PLEASE FEEL FREE TO USE THEM!!!

No generative artificial intelligence (AI) was used in the making of this work. The creator expressly prohibits any entity from using this piece for any purpose related to the training of AI technologies to generate text or images including without limitation to technologies that are capable of generating works in the same style or genre as this publication. In short, the unconsensual use of a creator's work to train an AI is just plagiarism with extra steps, and it is not tolerated in this house. Please feel free to take full offense.

No generative artificial intelligence (AI) was used in the creation of any of the posts on this blog. This blogger expressly prohibits any entity from using their blog or blog posts for any purpose relating to the training of AI technologies to generate text and/or images including without limitation to technologies that are capable of generating works in the same style or genre as any post present. In short, the unconsensual use of a creator's writing to train an AI is just plagiarism with extra steps, and it is not tolerated in this house. Please feel free to take full offense.

Fuck off with your AI bullshit and put in the work to create like the rest of us. It is wrong to steal other people's hard work and market it as "original." AI is no substitute for the practice, effort, time, and pain required to create the things we do. Scraping a creator's work to train an AI is plagiarism dressed in the guise of creativity.

Not wanting my work to be stolen, copied, and/or used to train AI is not gate keeping. Get over yourself and begin the journey of learning how to create. You don't need to be good. You just need to try.

[myfandomrealitea]

By the way if you follow accounts on Instagram and Tumblr dedicated to sharing a huge quantity of fanart, especially about one thing in particular and with a huge range of art styles, 99% of it is stolen.

They call themselves "fan accounts" and "sharing accounts" but that's just shorthand for; "I steal other people's hard work and art so I can repost it and farm clout."

You'll usually see, at the very bottom of the caption, something like: Credit to creator. DM for credit. By ____

I implore you, no matter how good the art is, please don't feed into them. If you actually look into the people they're stealing from you'll usually find the original artist both doesn't allow reposts and isn't even aware that their art has been stolen.

They do not care about artists. Only how their art can benefit them.

[chrissy-kaos]

These fucking people never learn. Once again another person stole my bio/pinned post. Changed it just enough to seem like they didn’t. I’m so fucking tired of this bullshit. Be fucking original or fuck off

[joelmillersonlyprincess]

It amazes me how this person can copy and plagiarize work. But I can’t even barely get a re-share on any of my stories. The people that actually put in work have to suffer while people like this who steal work get this mass following I don’t get it.

Report joelspookie immediately

[pasukiyo]

Currently shaking in anger as I type this out lmao

THIS “AUTHOR” ON WATTPAD (USERNAME: JUSTHEATHERR) HAS PLAGIARIZED NOT ONLY MINE, BUT OTHER CREATORS ON TUMBLR’S WORKS.

I have stated on my blog MULTIPLE TIMES that I do not tolerate plagiarism or reposting of my works of ANY KIND. To not only repost my work without permission but to make it seem as if it were your own, as if you yourself wrote and reply to comments as if you yourself wrote this story and had implemented a reference to Aaron Warner yourself. (Which, just FYI, my fic never had an Aaron Warner reference in it to begin with LMFAO)

Please, if you see this post, please go report this “author” on Wattpad and call them out in their comments. I’m not going to stand for my work and other writers’ works getting plagiarized. We all put too much effort into our fics for them to be thrown around other websites and to be discredited.

Here is the link to my original work, which I posted in April of 2023 :) Call Me By MY Name — Tom Riddle

[selenophyyy]

Plagiarism: The Headstone of Creativity and Ethics

It’s always disappointing to see how some people confuse copying with creating. Original work takes time, thought, creativity and integrity—all those things copycats can't get their head wrapped around and want shortcuts through someone else's hard work.

Don't take someone else's craft and mold it into what you like. It's not tribute, it's a theft—which is disrespectful to author, characters, story and even audience themselves.

Furthermore, there's a clear difference between inspiration and imitation with rephrasing sentences with some additional adjectives. Don't be a silly goose.

I hope the people who leach off others' work have awful diarrhea, stub their toe and always have classic bad Mondays every week till they realize and erase their unethical scribbles.

And to copycat(s): c'mon, don't be a coward now. You didn't think twice copying it so maybe it is time to make up for that now. Be brave by showing us your empty document history just filled with Ctrl C and Ctrl V and tons of rephrased second-hand sentences!

[lehhoh7822]

my dream is to have a post get so many notes its read out by multiple ai grifters on youtube shorts to minecraft parkour footage in an endless chain of worthless slop. from which the account owner can make hundreds, potentially thousands of dollars, out of being plagurist pieces of shit