AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale

Source: Hacker News

20 May, 2026

AI takes in all the input, whether the original authors have consented or not, and do some “learning”, and then the AI companies sell these learned result to humans, without compensating the original authors.

Worse, the customer of these AI companies (AI tools bro) sell the prompted / processed result to other customers, profiting off things AI has copied from all over the internet.

Is this what the pinnacle of human is? Lazy and greedy?

I research and write e-commerce related tutorials on my own, and a few other lazy website authors just ask ChatGPT to copy a few well‑performing tutorials online, and then they publish it as their own.

I found out this because they ranked higher than me in Google search results, and when I read their article, it contains links to my actual website with the exact link text (?!), which means they didn’t bother to check and remove them—that’s how I discovered it.

Fuck Google for ranking some copycat website higher than mine, even though they copied my article.