The Wholesale Plagiarism of Obscure Sorrows

Post by dylan604 » Sat, Jun 20, 2026, 7:36 PM UTC

saghm wrote: post #67

mcoliver wrote: post #54

A similar thing is happening to me. I worked on something for 3 years which I give away for free to help people and a thief took my software, ran it through ai to rebrand everything and relaunched as their own app. Unfortunately the ai missed a few Easter eggs I had hidden so the theft is undeniable. Google and Apple are useless for dmca unless you have a court order. They refuse to look at or arbitrate. So now I'm o…

> Google and Apple are useless for dmca unless you have a court order. This is especially egregious in Google's case given how trigger happy they are with pulling YouTube videos with a simple claim that something is infringing. I guess unless you can lobby them at the level of the music industry, their default policy is to do nothing.

Post by trvz » Sat, Jun 20, 2026, 7:37 PM UTC

sarchertech wrote: post #47

jonners00 wrote: post #41

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I can't tell you how many times a week claude opus 4.8 high effort has to apologise for being wrong when I'm asking it about something narrow and specific that i want it to research but it blurts out broad context from its training material and incorrect conclusions/assumptions. This is happening all the time. Someone needs to create a repository of its apologies to remind us all of its limitations.

I’ve noticed the same thing at work with Opus 4.8. ChatGPT on my personal plan does it too. Just yesterday I asked it to give some places fitting a specific criteria. The first was that they were within a 2 hour drive of my city. 75% of the locations it gave me were more than 2x that distance. It kept doing this across multiple difference searches. I tried high and pro with no difference.

Post by marshray » Sat, Jun 20, 2026, 7:39 PM UTC

scotty79 wrote: post #62

marshray wrote: post #52

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According to the article, 'Qontour' AKA 'Prompt Digital' simply took the full text of a modern copyrighted and published book and made an official-looking website out of it with affiliate links to the real book. If you agree with copyright at all, then this is just blatant, intentional infringement for commercial gain. This story has practically nothing to do with AI. It could have been done 20 years ago, the crappy…

They basically liked the idea of the book and used the bulk of its text as lorem ipsum in a demo for their most likely one (three?) person "digital agency" that probably has 3 clients including mom. The title made me think that he released a paperback that competes with the original. > If you agree with copyright at all The only part of copyright I agree with is right to inalienable attribution (which the rest of cop…

Post by ChrisMarshallNY » Sat, Jun 20, 2026, 7:39 PM UTC

raincole wrote: post #48

sarchertech wrote: post #35

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> However, Claude says unfortunately copyright law doesn't work that way. I hate this so much. Not you or your post, just that it’s becoming normal to just throw out “Claude says this” without doing any fact checking. Claude’s also technically right but wrong where it matters. The author could easily offer to settle for control of the site instead of suing. If the author registered the copyright to the book, he doesn…

It's applied Cunningham's law: > the best way to get correct answers on HN isn't to ask questions, but to post LLM's answers so people will eagerly fact check them to prove LLMs wrong.

Post by 12_throw_away » Sat, Jun 20, 2026, 7:42 PM UTC

scotty79 wrote: post #62

marshray wrote: post #52

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According to the article, 'Qontour' AKA 'Prompt Digital' simply took the full text of a modern copyrighted and published book and made an official-looking website out of it with affiliate links to the real book. If you agree with copyright at all, then this is just blatant, intentional infringement for commercial gain. This story has practically nothing to do with AI. It could have been done 20 years ago, the crappy…

They basically liked the idea of the book and used the bulk of its text as lorem ipsum in a demo for their most likely one (three?) person "digital agency" that probably has 3 clients including mom. The title made me think that he released a paperback that competes with the original. > If you agree with copyright at all The only part of copyright I agree with is right to inalienable attribution (which the rest of cop…