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Things that I post here, on my site at CircuitBored.Com, and even ideas from TikTok and other social media places have been increasingly paraphrased and reposte

Things that I post here, on my site at CircuitBored.Com, and even ideas from TikTok and other social media places have been increasingly paraphrased and reposted a lot lately. I've frequently observed bots crawling through my site pages in logs... We're in an age of content theft because there is desperation for profit and continually renewed posts and reposts. I have no idea where it ends, there are even AI driven sites dedicated to reword text that is copied and pasted into them, so there's an endless supply of resources for plagiarism now. I think the only real thing I can do is keep my deepest ideas and inventions to myself and to not share them until Wikipedia feels like I'm relevant enough to vouch so I can be verified. Many of the people and resources that steal text over years have already achieved verification off the back of content and idea paraphrasing. The Internet has turned into a steaming pile of misrepresentation lately... Be careful what you share on it. Some of my most dedicated followers might even be the ones waiting for me to post IP so they can claim it first... The common factor on most content scheme sites is how verbose they are, and how grammar is often suspect, in non-human looking ways. I also notice high engagement numbers with my most pirated posts, but often no likes, that's a sure sign that something is afoot. I have noticed hijacked ideas on even resources that would normally be considered reputable. I'm pretty sure this is happening to everyone who posts input that makes sense. I have even observed questions posed on sites like HN bust for the purposes of crowd-sourcing research in a very lazy manner. Be careful what you share publicly if it's patent-worthy folks... As opportunity for growth and recognition shrinks online, content and idea theft will only increase. Copywriting may eventually make a strong, shocking, and quite disruptive comeback once a content paraphrasing search solution is reverse engineered.

Fnoord 4y ago
TL;DR automated stuff happened. That's not theft; it is copyright infringement. We are indeed in an age of copyright infringement, but also in an age of abundant availability of data. For sharing inventions, we have a patent system. Otherwise, we have secrecy. If you don't want something to be shared easily, don't digitize it. Or, if you must, don't connect it to the internet. Keep it airgapped. And even airgap is relative these days.
- winternett 4y ago
  I'm not worried about ideas being posted online being abridged by automation. Of course publicly shared ideas can be copied. It's the fact that original independent (unsponsored) content and idea creators are often suppressed (downvoted or ignored) on many points, then their ideas are blatantly lifted and rip-posted by others on platforms that give credit and monetization to blatant hijackers... That's a bit beyond copyright infringement. It's a new and higher level of offense than simple copyright infringement. It's driving real scholars (and people who could actually complete presented ideas) to give up and wither away in desk jobs. Then the world doesn't realize that fraud has taken over and looted everything until real problems get trumped by profit seeking and vanity for decades.

Fnoord 4y ago

TL;DR automated stuff happened. That's not theft; it is copyright infringement. We are indeed in an age of copyright infringement, but also in an age of abundant availability of data. For sharing inventions, we have a patent system. Otherwise, we have secrecy. If you don't want something to be shared easily, don't digitize it. Or, if you must, don't connect it to the internet. Keep it airgapped. And even airgap is relative these days.

winternett 4y ago
I'm not worried about ideas being posted online being abridged by automation. Of course publicly shared ideas can be copied. It's the fact that original independent (unsponsored) content and idea creators are often suppressed (downvoted or ignored) on many points, then their ideas are blatantly lifted and rip-posted by others on platforms that give credit and monetization to blatant hijackers... That's a bit beyond copyright infringement. It's a new and higher level of offense than simple copyright infringement. It's driving real scholars (and people who could actually complete presented ideas) to give up and wither away in desk jobs. Then the world doesn't realize that fraud has taken over and looted everything until real problems get trumped by profit seeking and vanity for decades.