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This is a good illustration of how so much of AI theft isn't indirect (ie, data sucked into a model to train the chatbot) - it's actually **direct** copying, but *enabled* by GenAI. Of course it is: chatbots absolutely suck at creating good, new stuff.

So the AI users are going to feed our original work directly into the chatbot and make it different enough to avoid detection, rather than using chatbot output trained on our work. Eg - recently, I found out Electrek was just copying my blog posts for profit on their website, to run ads against.

bsky.appKetan Joshi (@ketanjoshi.co)WTF is this - @fredlambert.bsky.social from @electrek.co just ripped my post and reworded it? And even generated some garish slop to use as a header?? Did he do this manually or did a chatbot just do…

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