Some Chatbots Ganged Up and Plagiarized Me

This article is from Big Technology, a newsletter by Alex Kantrowitz. Last weekend, a new Substack called the Rationalist lifted analysis and writing directly from my own newsletter on the platform, Big Technology. Its plagiarized post on the "Creator Economy"--which I'd covered only days prior--went viral, hitting the front page of Hacker News and sparking a conversation with more than 80 comments. It would've been a terrific debut for any publication, if it was authentic. What made the case of the Rationalist particularly striking, though, was its author--an avatar by the name of "Petra"--admitted they'd used A.I. tools to produce the story, including those from OpenAI, Jasper, and Hugging Face.