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Most worthless obsession in the world. Imitation is the best form of flattery. If the issue is royalties/grants/ego, these days ML systems can easily detect sig
by cat_plus_plus 4y ago
Most worthless obsession in the world. Imitation is the best form of flattery. If the issue is royalties/grants/ego, these days ML systems can easily detect significant copying and auto-attach credits. If you are riled up by a middle school student copying a paragraph of your prose for an assignment, get a grip!
- OkayPhysicist 4y agoIt's about intellectual honesty. It should be unambiguous what parts of a creative work are actually your creativity, and what parts are borrowed from others. Besides that, citations make a great way to pursue further reading. If an interesting idea gets mentioned in passing in an essay I'm reading, then if it's cited I can go read that other work. That's why you're supposed to cute your own works, when an idea in a given essay is just lifted from something else you wrote. I, as a reader, can then go check out that work, and in turn be lead to the ideas that helped shape that one by the citations in that work.
- MauranKilom 4y ago> these days ML systems can easily detect significant copying and auto-attach credits. I don't know if you used google in the past, like, 5 years, but it proves this statement trivially false.