I believe bestselling author Mark Dawson is a serial plagiarist
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#3Normally I'd complain about linking to reddit, but there's a level of rigor here that I think is worthy of attention and discussion. I'm not a mod or anything, but I've seen blog posts here with less effort and citation than this hit the front page all the time. It's also about a month old according to the reddit timestamps, so the discussion isn't really ongoing there (Though of course this hitting HN could revive it I suppose).
Not OP. Just food for thought.
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#4Whoa, that's thorough. Damning, easily replicable, overwhelming evidence that this guy is indeed a fraud.
> He runs the Self Publishing Formula course and podcast, he talks at the 20BooksTo50K conference in Vegas, and he’s part of a new initiative called Fuse Publishing. He’s a pretty big deal in self-publishing, so what he does reflects on self-publishing as a whole.
Like instagram "buy my course to learn how I got rich" finance-influencers, the same old quip seemingly applies to self-publishing..: don't trust the success of anyone who talks a lot about how successful they are.
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#5Rather compelling to me too. Let’s see what the author says in response.
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#6Seems like someone could write a script that analyses a massive book torrent library to highlight plagiarism like this.
Am a little surprised it hasn't been done yet tbh. Might be a fun project.
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#7Whoa, that's thorough. Damning, easily replicable, overwhelming evidence that this guy is indeed a fraud. > He runs the Self Publishing Formula course and podcast, he talks at the 20BooksTo50K conference in Vegas, and he’s part of a new initiative called Fuse Publishing. He’s a pretty big deal in self-publishing, so what he does reflects on self-publishing as a whole. Like instagram "buy my course to learn how I got…
Oh these guys are so exhausting. My favorite was Grant Cardone — the real estate mogul who’s said he’d be ashamed if he made 400k a year. All of them and his ilk peddling this you can get rich fast stuff are disgusting.
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#8All the pulp greats are. Tarantino just embraced this and lifted it, p-adic style, to art. Good artists borrow, you know the rest la hahaha :)
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#9Related: the Norwegian press is now examining the theses of Norwegian ministers and politicians after a Twitter/x user found plagiarism in the Master's thesis of the Minister of Science - she had to go on the hour and may lose her degree. Other ministers are now being scrutinized
So if any of you are journalists - this may be a way to get new scoops!
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#10I have no idea about publishing or book writing or anything, so please enlighten me, but how much of that is plagiarism and how much of that is what would be called "fair use" in other domains?
The post only refers to excerpts of long-winded descriptions of stuff, not to large plots or entire paragraphs plagiarized.
Is that very different from asking ChatGPT to generate a thorough description of a situation and using this? Would that be plagiarism too?