Hacker News with Generative AI: Plagiarism

Documind ripped our open source tool and swapped the license (ycombinator.com)
Saw a ShowHN post [0] today about an open source document extractor tool. I thought the workflow sounded pretty similar to our library, and only to realize it's a direct rip of Zerox [1].

Open Source, Software, Licensing, Copyright, Plagiarism

30 points by themanmaran 4 days ago | 4 comments

Academic papers yanked after authors found to have used unlicensed software (theregister.com)
An academic journal has retracted two papers because it determined their authors used unlicensed software.

Academic Research, Software Licensing, Plagiarism

8 points by baud147258 8 days ago | 0 comments

Argentina's Javier Milei Accused of Plagiarising UN Speech from West Wing (theguardian.com)
Argentina’s rightwing populist president, Javier Milei, has been accused of plagiarising a chunk of his recent speech to the United Nations general assembly from the political drama The West Wing.

Politics, Plagiarism, Argentina, United Nations

6 points by croes 48 days ago | 1 comments

"AI-detection" is harmful to students (medium.com)
I’ve been working on a particularly distressing case recently, providing support in the appeals process to a student at another institution (which I am being careful not to name!) who was (I believe) falsely accused of submitting AI-generated work in one of their classes.

Education, Artificial Intelligence, Plagiarism

5 points by colinprince 59 days ago | 1 comments

Plagiarism Claims Are Brought Against University of Maryland's President (nytimes.com)
The University of Maryland said it was conducting a review of claims that its president, Darryll J. Pines, plagiarized significant portions of a 2002 scholarly paper.

Education, Plagiarism, Higher Education

49 points by bookofjoe 61 days ago | 23 comments

Serial academic fraudster steals medical, physics and computer science papers (forbetterscience.com)
Smut Clyde takes a brief respite from all that science fraud, to show you the comedy side of and impersonation plagiarism. Maybe less funny for those directly affected by theft of intellectual property, laptops and even identity, but we others can lean back and enjoy the hilarious antics of a wannabe scientist, engineer, neurosurgeon, film-star, Olympic shooter and sometimes even a young lady – Matthew J Stephenson.

Academic Fraud, Science, Plagiarism, Comedy, Identity Theft

9 points by rebanevapustus 71 days ago | 1 comments

Elon Musk tweets plagiarized article bylined by fake writer (futurism.com)

Elon Musk, Plagiarism, Social Media, Fake News

20 points by yangikan 89 days ago | 0 comments

JPlag – Detecting Software Plagiarism (github.com/jplag)

Software Engineering, Plagiarism, Code Analysis

102 points by drapado 99 days ago | 79 comments

There's a Tool to Catch Students Cheating with ChatGPT (wsj.com)

Education, Artificial Intelligence, Chatbots, Plagiarism

5 points by ulrischa 110 days ago | 8 comments

ChatGPT Citing Plagiarized Versions of NYT Articles on an Armenian Content Mill (futurism.com)