The Wholesale Plagiarism of Obscure Sorrows

63 points by UkiahSmith 23 hours ago on lobsters | 5 comments

thirdtruck | 8 hours ago

Folks keep calling genAI a tool to "democratize" creativity. The word they want is "colonize."

Glad to have at least learned about the word sonder from this.

kghose | 14 hours ago

Would have assumed S & S have a service that flags copyright violations. Perhaps the website is new.

datarama | 11 hours ago

They apparently DMCA'ed Google over it twice last year, which Google then ignored.

marginalia | 10 hours ago

Given the enormous legal liability of ignoring DMCA claims, that should if anything open doors.

linschn | 3 hours ago

Tangential to the plagiarism problem that's the topic of TFA, here's a similar-in-concept older book from Douglas Adams (they re-use existing places' names instead of wordsmithing) :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Meaning_of_Liff

It's not only about sad stuff, it's mostly humorous, but not only.