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#plagiarism

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This post by photographer Jingna Zhang resonates with me.

#AI art is devoid of humanity, intention, and backstory. It’s a shallow remix of human works, designed to be consumed and discarded, grinding human creation down into a sandy paste, to be re-extruded into grotesque displays. It’s the opposite of what makes art so valuable.

#aiArt #art #plagiarism #artist

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Anton LaVey plagiarized* "Might Is Right" for "The Satanic Bible" — here's the proof

queersatanic.com/anton-lavey-p

Anton LaVey, founder of the Church of Satan, directly lifted passages from the 19th century proto-fascist book "Might Is Right" by “Ragnar Redbeard” (Arthur Desmond) and did so extensively and without credit to produce a substantial part of LaVey’s most famous and popular work "The Satanic Bible".

This has been known for a very long while, although most Satanists tend not to be aware of just how shamelessly and thoroughly this work was done.

This article demonstrates exactly that.

"A model trained on plagiarized data is useless."

Your ability to write (and read) this sentence is based on a model of English that is fundamentally not attributable to anyone in particular.

And so, for that matter, is your model of the world that tells you plagiarism is bad despite all the evidence to the contrary from your own daily life.

Have you published a book? Here's how to check if Meta stole it for their dumb AI. Literally every traditionally published author I could think of is here.

I guess there's one upside to me not publishing a book yet, but it's not super consoling.

#books #plagiarism #ai #LeaveMeta

theatlantic.com/technology/arc

The Atlantic · Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AIBy Alex Reisner

"More than 30 performing arts leaders in the UK, including the bosses of the National Theatre, Opera North and the Royal Albert Hall, have joined the chorus of creative industry concern about the government’s plans to let artificial intelligence companies use artists’ work without permission."

#AI #plagiarism

theguardian.com/culture/2025/m

The Guardian · Performing arts leaders issue copyright warning over UK government’s AI plansBy Dan Milmo

I'm giving a talk on Thursday, March 13, 2025 at the Háskóli Íslands (University of Iceland):

"Ritstuldur og gervigreind í háskólakennslu" (Plagiarism and AI in University Education)

I really like the Icelandic word for #Plagiarism: writing-stealing

I look forward to interesting discussions!

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@AlexanderKingsbury @pafurijaz

Yes, the general public is indeed very dumb and apathetic. Look at #America as a prime example.

Doesn’t mean we need to bend over for the #capitalist shitheads stealing from artists and maximizing their profits by replacing real people with slop regurgitating bots.

You are free to use ai and I am free to call it soulless slop pumped out by untalented hacks.