#about plagiarism

[chevril-glove]

Oh my god it's The Author's Voice by Ricard Greenberg

(sorta)

This gnome is imprisoned in a room in this guy's apartment and the guy is forcing him to write a book that the guy is planning to sell and claim as his own. Gnome's good at writing, has a clear voice, has ideas. Guy is terrible at writing. (So the gnome's not an AI, but the guy's still trying to get published without writing.) Finally the gnome gets mad at the guy bc the guy is cruel and unimaginative, and so, in revenge, he gives the guy a complete manuscript to publish. The guy is delighted and sends it off to the publisher.

Then the gnome gives him a copy of an obscure novel. Guy opens the novel, finds it's the same, word for word, as the manuscript. He has now sent a completely, obviously plagiarized book for publication.

I apologize if you’ve been asked this question before I’m sure you have, but how do you feel about AI in writing? One of my teachers was “writing” stories using ChatGPT then was bragging about how good they were (they were not good) and said he was going to sell them. To put aside any legal concerns in that, I’m just trying to talk him down from that because, personally, I would not enjoy dream job being taken by AI.

The poor man.

Many magazines have closed their submission portals because people thought they could send in AI-written stories.

For years I would tell people who wanted to be writers that the only way to be a writer was to write your own stories because elves would not come in the night and do it for you.

With AI, drunk plagiaristic elves who cannot actually write and would not know an idea or a sentence if it bit their little elvish arses will actually turn up and write something unpublishable for you. This is not a good thing.

[dragonboyteeth]

I love being fully unaware of YouTuber drama and which channels are "popular." My first reaction at the start of that section was "who the hell is James Somerton"

[whirligiga]

I’ve been thinking since I watched the Hbomberguy video and it occurred to me

He said that one of the reasons he started looking into James Somerton’s stuff, is because he was being accused of plagiarism. He looked into it because he wanted to verify wether that was true, because queer people often get falsely accused of things, and harassed because of it. He wanted to make sure that wasn't happening.

In the end, his downfall was the kindness of the community that he exploited.

[blvckmvgicwoman]

Question wrt plagiarism - what would we report it under? The copyright violation requires a DCMA, but I'm not the owner.

I'll answer it the same way I answered one of my mutuals

You can always report as spam

There's not much we can do about copyright violation as you mentioned, we're not the owners or original author

But there's always the spam option

[yeoldenews]

I am now determined to find a way to use "ice cream freezer" as an insult again.

(source: The Troy Messenger, July 13, 1882.)

[incognitopolls]

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[aro-bird]

What's up with controversial YouTubers constantly blaming ADHD for their rancid actions like... that's not how ADHD fucking works??? It could worsen some issues you have and even be the reason for some but it wouldn't make you a fucking asshole????

[deadpresidents]

God damn your god damned old hellfired god damned soul to hell god damn you and goddam your god damned family's god damned hellfired god damned soul to hell and god damnation god damn them and god damn your god damn friends to hell.

Letter from a citizen to President-elect Abraham Lincoln, November 25, 1860.

I can't prove it, but I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that this citizen didn't vote for Lincoln.

[tofupixel]

its crazy how many people are mad at me because they think i'm talking about my own art being plagiarised, and how dare i be so full of myself. no i actually care about others. it's actually pretty easy you should try it

[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.

[rollercoasterwords]

like yeah obviously legality does not correlate to morality and i personally do not think ip laws should exist. however the reason i find it relevant to emphasize that selling fanfiction is illegal is not to make some moral stand about the sanctity of ip so much as to be like. hey this is the way it fucking is and if u break the law by selling fic u run the risk of creating larger legal troubles for entire communities of fic writers who just want to share their work for free. also more to the point the reason selling fic is so shitty is that it is a question of labor exploitation. i spent hundreds of hours creating something which you are now packaging and selling to make a profit without compensating me for my labor, which is not only exploitative but spits in the face of the spirit in which this fanfiction was shared—as a labor of love, meant to be free to anyone who wanted to read it. and the gag is that if u did want to fairly compensate me for my labor it would literally be thousands of dollars (assuming i’m charging even minimum wage for time spent writing & editing) which is why it isn’t fucking possible to sell fanfiction for a fair price!! all that on top of the fact that i (and many other fic writers) explicitly say “don’t sell or buy bound copies of my fic” just makes it flat-out undeniable that this is a fucking shitty thing to do, and i genuinely have no sympathy for people who go “wait what i’m not supposed to sell or buy fanfiction 🥺🥺🥺” like shut the fuck up i hate u

[irisbaggins]

Honestly, I feel so incredibly validated this episode, specifically with K's speech to Tabby. I mentioned it on this post (where I talk about K and their Atlas Complex), but this only further cemented that idea in my head: K works so hard to seem like they have control, that they're more experienced, that they're self-reflective and intelligent. They want to seem like they're more emotionally intelligent, when in reality they're not, because they're a teen who tries to take on every injustice in the world. Them admitting that they're saying all of this to Tabby because they cannot word themselves to Evan is so heart-breaking, because I recognize that behaviour. They cannot get any of those words out to Evan when they're talking to him, which leaves only the words they don't want to say, the things that will hurt - whether that is Evan or K themselves - and not the things they want to say.

Erika plays K so brilliantly, and I cannot help but shout them out for every episode that comes out. Maybe it's the fact that I was just like K when I was younger, but I find K such a compelling character that I just want to dig my teeth into. Erika always plays the most fascinating characters, and I adore the way they combine both speech and body language to act out a character.

It was just an amazing episode, y'all.

Also shoutout to Carlos Luna for his acting as Tabby, and the bloody callout he gave K came through the screen to punch me in the nose.

[phoenixyfriend]

I have begun watching The New hbomberguy Video

There's some fun bits, like "Where does--and I mean this as a compliment--the most fuckable twink I've ever seen in my life get off telling me how to manage my T-levels?"

But like... man.

I think one of the things that bother me about the Internet Historian case is that it seems like, if the guy had just reached out to Mental Floss, it could have been a really cool collaboration.

He could have just. Fucking asked. Cross-advertized it with the magazine telling their readers "Now this fan favorite is narrated by [internet famous person] with some amazing animation, based on the writing of [our guy.]"

[carrymelikeimcute]

hbomberguy really made a video ending like, five different careers just so he could make it 100% clear that he's a bisexual bear who owns fetish wear and would definately dom a fuckable twink.

Bizarrest dating agency tape ever.

EDIT - To the people reblogging this in outrage because 'he's not a bear' um... it's a silly tumblr post, fuck off.

[lady-raziel]

had never heard of James Somerton before but now very suspicious that his stranger things and nostalgia video essay directly compares it to ready player one when one of the few published works of mine on the internet from college was an analysis of stranger things and nostalgia that compares it to ready player one 🤔

[unionizedwizard]

tbh i know it's me being biased because irma is a summoner main but there's something so funnily accurate about the wol being a summoner re: the whole azem thing. convoker outfit huh! azem's special spell being Use Party Finder and summon allies HUH! and as we've established*, summoning is the missing link between creation magicks and regular sundered arcanima. though of course the funniest reveal of them all was to find out WHY the phoenix rotation had spells called shit like "brands of purgatory" (extremely ❓ for most of the MSQ) and that the true reason is that you pirated copyrighted material created by none other than lahabrea himself and then fixed it yourself. the DRAMA

*as we have obviously all read and agreed with my archon thesis on the topic