A recent study shows us how long plagiarized works remained unretracted and what types of plagiarism take the longest.
https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2025/04/02/how-long-does-a-plagiarism-retraction-take/
"“I’m pleased that there’s such interest in my doctoral thesis. It’s sort of languished on the shelf for over three decades,” said Carney in response to a question from the National Post during a campaign announcement in Winnipeg on Tuesday."
It took a few days, but #MarkCarney found a smart response.
Mark Carney responds to plagiarism allegations in his PhD thesis
https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/federal_election/carney-responds-to-plagiarism-allegations-im-pleased-that-theres-such-interest-in-my-doctoral-thesis
(The article concludes by assessing that it's a "minor case".)
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is facing allegations of plagiarism in his 1995 dissertation from Oxford. Here's how serious they are.
https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2025/03/31/the-mark-carney-plagiarism-scandal/
@GottaLaff Key takeaways: 1) Heritage Foundation pwned #Hegseth and the #DoD there's at least 1 leaker in the DoD and they won't be able to find out who because they distributed the 'secret' so widely. 3) Hegseth & Co. are too lazy to do anything but plagiarize.
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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"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.
Fans are claiming that artwork from the game Marvel Snap plagiarized fan creations. How serious are the allegations and do they matter?
https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2025/03/20/marvel-snap-accused-of-plagiarizing-fan-art/
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
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/search-libgen-data-set/682094/
Top AI Tools for Academic writing - DEV Community
The AI-powered tools listed in the article can help with research, structuring, writing, editing, citations, plagiarism checking and proofreading.
https://dev.to/gerald_ayakins/top-ai-tools-for-academic-writing-314b
OpenAI asks Uncle Sam to let it scrape everything, stop other countries complaining.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/13/openai_data_copyright/
"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."
Erasmus University has ruled that Vicky Maeijer's thesis is invalid. The Dutch state secretary now faces the loss of her degree.
https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2025/03/17/univesity-invalidates-thesis-of-dutch-politician/
Plagiarism in academic journals (1/N)
I have encountered plagiarism more than I would have liked to. Most of the time, the text just stood out as being in a different style and a quick search on the internet would come up with the original source.
are there any tools that check if a project is just actually a copy from another project?
AI search is a major trend in the space. However, a new study claims that AI search bots fail at citation and honoring publishers' wishes.
https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2025/03/13/ai-search-fails-at-citation/
@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.
A new study from the University of the Basque Country examines whether student usage of AI leads to plagiarism.
https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2025/03/05/does-ai-cause-students-to-plagiarize/
A study disproves claim that AI use directly triggers plagiarism among university students - campusa-magazine https://www.ehu.eus/en/web/campusa-magazine/-/a-study-disproves-claim-that-ai-use-directly-triggers-plagiarism-among-university-students
And THANK you for including a link to the actual article in your news release!
ht @researchbuzz #AI #Ethics #Plagiarism #Postplagiarism
Today's AI plagiarism case:
Me: What happened on that assignment?
Student: I gave it to my boyfriend to do, and I don't know what he did with it.
Me: ?!?
The infamous "homework help" site Chegg has filed a lawsuit against Google claiming that Google's AI summaries are stealing their traffic.
https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2025/02/27/chegg-sues-google-over-ai-summaries/
