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Zigbook Is Plagiarizing the Zigtools Playground

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Re: Zigbook Is Plagiarizing the Zigtools Playground

#61
post #60

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Well, the name of the "real" account is "zkevm.dev", and the previous account was zk-evm. Those are just letters to me, but it does seem like a clear link. Couldn't say that either is "real", though.

It is not. zk-evm refers to a type of blockchain. It's not a unique/singular link.

"zkevm.dev" is his domain, he uses it for email on all 3 accounts.

Re: Zigbook Is Plagiarizing the Zigtools Playground

#62
post #38

https://github.com/zigbook/zigbook/pull/45#issuecomment-3592... Would this be grounds to report zigbook to GitHub maybe? This is wild

zigbook edited a 3rd party comment to say "I’m autistic and sperging out over stuff on the internet that doesn’t actually matter. Don’t mind me." Just your run off the mill AI grifter. EDIT: https://lobste.rs/s/pbn3zy/zigbook_learn_zig_programming_lan... "Quick research - author's actual profile is https://github.com/zk-evm , and he's a potential scammer from crypto spaces, who also happens to be running fake GitHub…

That's mostly just odd. Either a young teen way in over their head or a weirdly non-functional adult.

Re: Zigbook Is Plagiarizing the Zigtools Playground

#63
post #52

Repo seems to be gone? User action or GitHub action? Regardless, for visibility as to maybe-why this happened, here are screenshots of the user editing comments to insult/make them say something they never did; https://imgur.com/a/LsvBXY1 https://web.archive.org/web/20251130091635/https://github.co... The tool itself claims "Zero AI" ( https://www.zigbook.net/ ) yet is very obviously A-Lot-AI.

The responds and edits are simply unprofessional and immature. I don't hate AI and in fact I use it for many research based tasks, helping me narrowing a lot of tough topics, but it is the People with these kind of attitude turns me off.

Re: Zigbook Is Plagiarizing the Zigtools Playground

#65

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Wow. It's also an extremely reasonable pull request, here's the only commit: https://github.com/zigbook/zigbook/compare/main...SuperAugus...

help us, it's gone

Original commit: https://github.com/SuperAuguste/zigbook/commit/8cc9edd35b3e3...

Re: Zigbook Is Plagiarizing the Zigtools Playground

#67

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How did you connect this account back to the "real" account?

The account had a link to a personal website, that (for now) has links to a few social medias and the "real" account.

That's a pretty strong link, nice work!

Re: Zigbook Is Plagiarizing the Zigtools Playground

#68
post #39

Plagiarism is a moral wrong. But copyright infringement is a legal wrong (a civil liability). Is what they're doing infringing on a copyrighted work? Or does it fail to uphold license terms? Many open source licenses have some amount of attribution as a requirement, so that'd be something to consider.

AI is actually beginning to encourage "restricted source", public-only-gets-binary debates to simply avoid such legal issues. Write a snail-mail letter to get the real sources. Repositories are private with a small well-vetted list of contributors. Also avoid slop-PR headaches that away.

If you were licensing MIT, ostensibly it’s not the copying you care about, just the attribution. There is always the option to turn off prs, or even distribute code without using github.

Re: Zigbook Is Plagiarizing the Zigtools Playground

#69
post #52

Repo seems to be gone? User action or GitHub action? Regardless, for visibility as to maybe-why this happened, here are screenshots of the user editing comments to insult/make them say something they never did; https://imgur.com/a/LsvBXY1 https://web.archive.org/web/20251130091635/https://github.co... The tool itself claims "Zero AI" ( https://www.zigbook.net/ ) yet is very obviously A-Lot-AI.

The responds and edits are simply unprofessional and immature. I don't hate AI and in fact I use it for many research based tasks, helping me narrowing a lot of tough topics, but it is the People with these kind of attitude turns me off.

AI use is fine, though pretending you haven't used it when you obviously did rubs me the wrong way.

I get why GitHub allows editing comments of other users though for public repos I guess it allows for this kind of abuse

Re: Zigbook Is Plagiarizing the Zigtools Playground

#70

https://github.com/zigbook/zigbook/pull/45#issuecomment-3592... Would this be grounds to report zigbook to GitHub maybe? This is wild

The whole thing looks very childish, I'm not sure I even fully understand the conversation of #43. Are they troll accounts?
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