#anti plagiarism

[reikomizuao3]

Calling out a Plagiarist *I HAVE SCREENSHOTS*

We do not support plagiarism on dis here tumblr, so I'm calling you out!!

The user Loves2Write on the website Archive of Our Own, in their story "The Snow Queen" has plagiarized paragraphs from the story "The Joy Of Vengeance" by dearly departed TheCuriousCalico. I have reported them, but I'm posting screenshots in case they scramble to cover it up

This is the original text:

This is the plagiarized text

As a writer, nothing pisses me off more than plagiarism, and any time I see it happen, I'm calling it out!!

[fandom-hoarder]

Watching the 4 hr hbomberguy vid about plagiarism, to cap off a week where I was deciding what to do about a plagiarized wincest fic. Interesting juxtaposition. 😂

[fourdramas]

Bill Ackman single-handedly taking on anti-plagiarism algorithms in academia on X 👀👀

[gayhenrycreel]

something i would like people to note is the difference between piracy and plagiarism.

plagiarism is taking someone elses work and claiming it as your own, often to make money off it.

piracy is illegally stealing something, without making or spending money. every single pirated copy of anything that ive ever had still credits the creators correctly. books still say who the author is and shows and movies still include the end credits.

people plagiarize because they are assholes.

people pirate because they are too poor to afford all these expensive streaming services, because such services can take media away at any time (piracy is a great way to make sure media does not become lost, google The Mysterious Benedict Society), or because the company that made it is awful and dont deserve money (disney, bbc, netflix, amazon).

both are legally stealing, but law and morality are not the same thing. piracy and plagiarism are very different, and should be treated as such.

[kuramirocket]

Anti stealing and "fixing art"

[kimkaelyn]

Apologies for interrupting your scrolling

This morning some lowlife stole my friend @getstarried artwork, put it through an ai machine, and posted it as their own!

Here is starry’s original post: https://www.tumblr.com/getstarried/753595814239141888/what-it-means-to-be-a-hero

And here is the stolen post: https://www.tumblr.com/9digitalterravisionsblog/756398176113754112

It’ll only take a minute of your time, but please report @9digitalterravisionsblog for spam since only Starry can report for copyright infringement!

PLEASE HELP SPREAD THE WORD!!!!!

UPDATE: THE PERSON’S ACCOUNT HAS BEEN REMOVED!!!

[marzipanandminutiae]

hey AI image blogs that turn replies off on your posts

you're not just plagiarists- you're cowardly plagiarists

if you don't think there's anything wrong with what you're doing, why not let people warn others on the post? or are you hoping nobody notices because, deep down, you DO know that you're full of shit and unwilling to get off your ass and actually create something yourself (or at least promote the work of real artists, not steal it)?

"well it's on my page! well it's in my URL!" shut up. you KNOW people reblog absentmindedly on here all the time, and they look at the notes before they look at OP's blog. don't give me that drivel

[lecoindecachou]

In honor of James Somerton being a topic of discussion again, here's a poll I've been wanting someone to do for a while. Please be honest and reblog if you can, I'm actually really interested in the answer.

[crumblinggothicarchitecture]

Taylor Swift: The Lyric Thief- Evermore Edition.

Do y'all know about this?

Swift's lyric "How's one to know/ I'd meet you where the spirit meets the bone" ("Ivy" 2020).

Great, interesting lyric from Swift's own mind, right? WRONG.

Originally, it came from a poem called "Compassion" written by Miller Williams in 1997.

Here is the poem:

Have compassion for everyone you meet, even if they don’t want it. What seems conceit, bad manners, or cynicism is always a sign of things no ears have heard, no eyes have seen. You do not know what wars are going on down there where the spirit meets the bone. (Williams, 1997)

It's later used as an album title "Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone" that Miller William's daughter, Lucinda Williams, published in 2014.

She also used the line, that her father ORGINALLY wrote, in a song tribute to him called "Compassion" on that same 2014 album.

Can we please stop pretending Swift is a genius? When, in fact, all of her most "intelligent" and "powerful" lyrics are lines outright taken from other works in literary, and musical, canon.

She's just a derivative fraud who wants all of her fans to think she's the one coming up with all these ideas.

She stole the line from a woman who used it as a tribute to her dying Father- the original author- who is now passed.

Not only did Swift rip the line out of a tribute album written to the original writer- but she also put the line in a dumb song that romanticizes cheating. She writes, "dare to sit a watch what we'll become/ and drink my husband's wine" ("Ivy" 2020). Clearly, the whole song is about a woman who is cheating on her husband.

The original intention of the line itself is about having compassion for other people, while taking care to have humility and resist the allure of cynicism. It's a poem about caring for your fellow man- and resisting despair in life. Arguably, it is also a poem about mental health issues and respecting those who may struggle. Swift twists the line to describe meeting a clandestine hookup and cheating on her husband.

Not only did she yank the line right out of someone else’s work, with no credit given to the original intention of the line or the original author- but she also made it about such a selfish, sick, thing to do- cheating on a spouse.

The original intention of the line was so kind and empathetic. She ruined it with her endorsement of cavalier attitudes towards moral corruption :(

[sylvanus-cypher]

For my money, the worst thing Somerton's ever done was in his response to that one person on twitter who pointed out his plagiarism on Evil Queens and was about to expose it on his other videos

He claimed that this person who was politely pointing out that he'd ripped people off was sending him death threats and trying to find his home address. What else was this supposed to do that incite his fans to violently harass that person? Honest question, what else could possibly be the reason to lie in that specific way?

I know hbomberguy didn't dwell on it too long because he was asked to reference them as little as possible, but beyond the plagiarism, the setting up Nick as a fall guy, the burying of other queer creators, that specific event is probably the most damningly irredeemable thing he's done so far.

Whenever he posts something new, it'll be the first thing I think of; that he's a liar and a thief willing to send unconscionable amounts of harassment to innocent people.

[gender-trash]

incredibly funny how a bunch of people interpreted “ao3 was almost certainly scraped as part of the gpt training dataset because it’s a big easily accessible body of english language text, so you can prompt gpt with surprisingly vague stuff and it will autocomplete with snarry underage or wangxian a/b/o” as “elon musk Personally is Currently scraping ao3 and training an ai to plagiarize fic, going to go lock ALL my works on ao3 IMMEDIATELY”

its. its already in the dataset. how do you think these things work. “locking my works to registered users only until after the scraping stops!” my dude the ao3 team just needs to like add a robots.txt and check the useragent and stuff to prevent this from happening in the future*, and theyre already on it, but not only is the existing body of work presumably In the Dataset, the model has ALREADY BEEN TRAINED. that omelet isnt going to get unscrambled

(*im assuming that everyone gathering datasets for large language models is being reasonably Polite about it bc these are both very simple to circumvent — if this assumption is false then ao3 might need to graduate to Offensive Measures but also we would definitely need to bully the culprits off of hacker news)

anyway im not taking any Stance one way or the other on the “ai art debate” (other than maybe “none of you know what the hell you’re talking about”) but we’re definitely going to see a whole new world of copyright claims against the big art models and ml researchers developing new tools for “removing” stuff from a trained model, and i for one think that it will be SO entertaining to watch

[nerdby]

If you support AI ANYTHING after reading about this then you are trash.

[autolykus]

Source is @/tullygolist on TikTok.

[sadkachow]

how the fuck did my english class manage to take a semi-positive stance on generative ai

[allegras-sunflower]

Somebody with a good ear and a strong stomach needs to make a list of all the songs swift has copied over the years because I know it's more than a few.

I'm not proud of it, but I AM an ex-swiftie, so I know all her songs from 1989 to Midnights so I can help with that.

But she hasn't only copied songs, Florence Welsh did the flowy gowns on stage first, Shakira did the giant cobra snake on tour, and of course, Beyonce did the marching band before her. At this point, I don't even think her boobs are original.

If anyone has more suggestions for the songs she ripped off playlist, please feel free to send.

[dougielombax]

“But, but ChatGPT told me-

No!

Shut!

Stop!

Be quiet for SEVERAL days.

And let me explain why you are very very very very very very very very very very wrong wrong wrong wrong WRONG!

Now!

ChatGPT told you what you WANTED to hear!

It’s a digital bullshit artist that passes off nonsense masquerading as fact!

(That is when it isn’t fuelling plagiarism or spreading mis/disinformation!)

Do NOT cite its word as though it were some wise all-knowing sage!

You absolute child!

Even children would know better than to do that!

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