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15 years later, Microsoft morged my diagram

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Re: 15 years later, Microsoft morged my diagram

#13
From TFA:

> the diagram was both well-known enough and obviously AI-slop-y enough that it was easy to spot as plagiarism. But we all know there will just be more and more content like this that isn't so well-known or soon will get mutated or disguised in more advanced ways that this plagiarism no longer will be recognizable as such.

Most content will be less known and the ensloppified version more obfuscated... the author is lucky to have such an obvious association. Curious to see if MSFT will react in any meaningful way to this.

Edit: typo

Re: 15 years later, Microsoft morged my diagram

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post #10

LinkedIn is also a great example of this stuff at the moment. Every day I see posts where someone clearly took a slide or a diagram from somewhere, then had ChatGPT "make it better" and write text for them to post along with it. Words get mangled, charts no longer make sense, but these people clearly aren't reading anything they're posting. It's not like LinkedIn was great before, but the business-influencer incentiv…

LinkedIn is a masquerade ball dressed up as a business oriented forum. Nobody is showing their true selves, everyone is either grinding at their latest unicorn potential with their LLM BFF or posting a "thoughtful" story that is 100% totally real about a life changing event that somehow turns into a sales pitch at the end...

Re: 15 years later, Microsoft morged my diagram

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post #9

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Morged I got nothing...

I too was confused until I looked at the included screenshot. This is just another reminder that powerful global entities are composed of lazy, bored individuals. It’s a wonder we get anything done.

we are also stressed, scared for our jobs and bombarded by constant distraction
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