AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale
The article discusses concerns about AI's role in unauthorized plagiarism. It highlights how AI companies use original content without consent and profit from it. The author expresses frustration over the ranking of plagiarized content over original work in search results.
- ▪AI companies utilize original content without the authors' consent for training their models.
- ▪Customers of AI tools often publish plagiarized content as their own, undermining original creators.
- ▪The author discovered instances of plagiarism when their original articles were linked in copied content that ranked higher in search results.
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AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale 20 May, 2026 AI takes in all the input, whether the original authors have consented or not, and do some "learning", and then the AI companies sell these learned result to humans, without compensating the original authors. Worse, the customer of these AI companies (AI tools bro) sell the prompted / processed result to other customers, profitting off things AI has copied from all over the internet. Is this what the pinnacle of human is? Lazy and greedy? I research and write e-commerce related tutorials on my own, and a few other lazy website authors just ask ChatGPT to copy a few well performing tutorial online, and then they published it as their own.
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