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mahatmakanejeeves

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Wed Sep 24, 2025, 08:30 AM Sep 2025

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dalton99a

(95,255 posts)
1. The Slovenian sex worker has a speech writer
Wed Sep 24, 2025, 08:34 AM
Sep 2025

underpants

(197,177 posts)
2. She plagiarizes one author while Stephen Miller basically plagiarized Goebbels
Wed Sep 24, 2025, 08:34 AM
Sep 2025

at the circle Kirk on Sunday

niyad

(134,030 posts)
3. "threw" paper airplanes, not "through". so much for ai.
Wed Sep 24, 2025, 08:35 AM
Sep 2025

yardwork

(69,643 posts)
4. I wonder what Melania did as a child.
Wed Sep 24, 2025, 08:36 AM
Sep 2025

unc70

(6,514 posts)
5. Right down to the use of through when sb threw
Wed Sep 24, 2025, 08:36 AM
Sep 2025

Pretty obvious copying.

demmiblue

(39,941 posts)
6. It's a AI overview...Several people in the replies claim that that quote is not in that particular book.
Wed Sep 24, 2025, 08:44 AM
Sep 2025

Last edited Wed Sep 24, 2025, 09:19 AM - Edit history (1)

Full book is available at archive.org/details/down... and it doesn't mention marbles or kites or drones anywhere. Bleak that people took this seriously when it was very visibly a screenshot of an AI overview.

Indispensable Cobbler (@crossgap.bsky.social) 2025-09-24T09:28:10.648Z


I regret to inform you that AI is hallucinating again. That's not in Downbelow Station.

AndOrNorLyn (@norlyn.bsky.social) 2025-09-23T23:33:35.505Z


Seriously, I have the book on Kindle.

Please fact-check.

AndOrNorLyn (@norlyn.bsky.social) 2025-09-23T23:45:25.766Z


mahatmakanejeeves

(70,719 posts)
9. Thanks for the correction.
Wed Sep 24, 2025, 09:05 AM
Sep 2025

Should I delete the post?

And good morning.

demmiblue

(39,941 posts)
11. That's up to you, but I wouldn't want to spread false information (I added more to my reply).
Wed Sep 24, 2025, 09:21 AM
Sep 2025

Good morning!

mahatmakanejeeves

(70,719 posts)
13. You are correct. I'm taking your advice. Thank you. NT
Wed Sep 24, 2025, 09:34 AM
Sep 2025

hlthe2b

(114,675 posts)
7. What morons surround her... We know she can't compose any kind of coherent speech
Wed Sep 24, 2025, 08:44 AM
Sep 2025

But why the hell did they not simply have her attribute her comments (e.g., in the words of the author, C.J. Cherryh) before quoting this passage word for word?

They are apparently too fucking stupid or arrogant to avoid even this controversy.

 

617Blue

(2,526 posts)
8. Call Girl says things.
Wed Sep 24, 2025, 08:49 AM
Sep 2025

peggysue2

(12,595 posts)
10. An AI summary makes crazy sense because . . .
Wed Sep 24, 2025, 09:08 AM
Sep 2025

For a published book, the spelling errors and mixed tenses are atrocious. The whole thing made me wince.

If you're going to plagiarize, at least have the decency to represent what the author (C. J. Cherryh) actually wrote on the page.

Does the First Lady really think she can get away with this sort of theft? Or is this another example of I really don't care, do U?

Emile

(43,260 posts)
12. These fascists have no shame!
Wed Sep 24, 2025, 09:25 AM
Sep 2025

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