Why still plagiarize when there is AI?

[tbct_mt2]

I thought that the reason why people were plagiarizing in the past was because of the lack of research tools and platform.

That's a funny comment because I see it differently than you.

In the past, search engines were less powerful and efficiently in searching and found results than now. So in the past, people had to spent more time from searching even just for plagiarisms.

Now, it is more easily to do searching and plagiarism so it's non sense to say in the past, people did plagiarism because they lacked of proper searching tools. They used searching for plagiarism man.

Now that even google has integrated AI, research shouldn't be difficult and the rate of plagiarism is supposed to reduce drastically.
Why is there still plagiarism?

It makes their plagiarism works more easily and effortlessly.

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[CryptSafe]

It's laziness, plain and simple, it was never about the ease of access to information from the internet. No matter how easy it is to get information from the internet, there will always be people who will plagiarise or use AI to write a post for them. There is no changing that, and it shouldn't be a surprise that the thread you mentioned is still active.

Some just wants to bypass or boycott protocol to get quick results which is not so here. They forget that there is always a price to pay if one must grow up in the forum and achieving this, one must make sure of quality contribution and this is what counts for them but they still will use AI for posting  because they do not really know or have idea on what to do, some  even use the AI to post out of point and when you read it you will wonder if the person who wrote the statement really read the OP before posting.

[SquirrelJulietGarden]

Isn't the use of AI synonymous to plagiarism, are you the one that wrote what was there being copied or do you take your time in referencing that the content was AI the same way plagiarism was done.

For those coming to this forum newly, the use of AI is not against the rules here, but you can get tagged for posting AI contents because you're not the one that make such by your own self, the same way a plagiarists does, while plagiarism will get you banned, I will advise none of these should be allowed, we are making real discussion here and not what we could have gotten from the use of a bot.

Like this.

Both posts are probably AI generated content, but member Daxian198402 is 100% doing plagiarism spam.
Note that I am going to delete his post because this is my self-moderated topic, to avoid spam like this.
I also received two almost identical PM's from different accounts.  

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This will be a good source of writing down the seed phrase once a durable and quality material is considered for use, but what u don't know is the duration at which this maker colour material could last, that being said, I will still say that we should also have an additional backup storage for our seed phrase, in case of being lost or inaccessible, since it has a characteristics that proves fire resistance.

I am not sure whether you or Daxian198402 plagiarized here, not look into two accounts but if from two posts and times of publishing, you are plagiarist in this context.

I recall that you plagiarized, were banned and were given a second chance too.

Not sure but if you actually did it, the second chance given to your account is useless.

[KingsDen]

I am not sure whether you or Daxian198402 plagiarized here, not look into two accounts but if from two posts and times of publishing, you are plagiarist in this context.

I recall that you plagiarized, were banned and were given a second chance too.

Not sure but if you actually did it, the second chance given to your account is useless.

Wait!
If two different accounts send you an identical pm, the best we can make out of the situation is that both accounts belong to one person.
I do not think that anyone could be banned based on plagerism committed in private (via pm). I also haven't heard of something like this before now and I do not think that there is any rule covering that kind of plagerism in the forum.

[Pablo-wood]

People can use AI to gain insight and ideas on certain topics which they don’t know anything about but it also has its own risks. The more people interact with AI, the more thinking AI will be doing for people. As a result, people will lose their ability to think. In a few years, there will be many people who will be asking AI’s opinion whenever they decide to do something. “Hey I am going to go get a beer from the fridge, is this a good idea? What’s the possibility of me catching a lightning bolt on the way?” You might laugh at this at the moment but it is coming. We are probably one of last generations who do the thinking themselves. Soon AI will takeover that field.

when machines started replacing physical labor, people worried it would make humans lazy. Instead, it freed people from carrying out repetitive, exhausting and overwhelming tasks and gave them room for more creativity and innovation.

The same logic might apply to AI, yes, it could reduce the need for people to solve certain problems themselves, but it could also boost productivity by handling the mental grunt work in our case it can polish posts and  help convey ideas in a more readable format. The key will be how humans adapt. If people only use AI passively, they might weaken their own critical thinking. But if they use it as a partner like a calculator, search engine, or power tool it could actually enhance human thought and creativity.

[lovesmayfamilis]

Not everyone reads the rules, or they partially know the rules, and it is AI that is now the first warning for beginners. Many are afraid to use AI for posting, checking their posts on the tools that are posted in the corresponding branch. But by copying and pasting, they probably hope that no one will notice, since many, like the OP, believe that plagiarism came out of their fashion. However, AI and plagiarism have the same root- laziness.

[Zoomic]

Not everyone reads the rules, or they partially know the rules, and it is AI that is now the first warning for beginners. Many are afraid to use AI for posting, checking their posts on the tools that are posted in the corresponding branch. But by copying and pasting, they probably hope that no one will notice, since many, like the OP, believe that plagiarism came out of their fashion. However, AI and plagiarism have the same root- laziness.

I get the twist now. Copying AI or simply AI posting seems to be the trend (the new oil well). So, plagiarists' really do think that attention has been diverted to AI posting, so they simply went for copy pasting normal texts from the internet lol. This is a smart one but funny enough it is failing them because there is advancement, so detecting plagiarized texts or articles is becoming so easier than before.

[Lucius]

People can use AI to gain insight and ideas on certain topics which they don’t know anything about but it also has its own risks. The more people interact with AI, the more thinking AI will be doing for people. As a result, people will lose their ability to think. In a few years, there will be many people who will be asking AI’s opinion whenever they decide to do something. “Hey I am going to go get a beer from the fridge, is this a good idea? What’s the possibility of me catching a lightning bolt on the way?” You might laugh at this at the moment but it is coming. We are probably one of last generations who do the thinking themselves. Soon AI will takeover that field.

This is already happening today - and what's worst of all is that I see a lot of children who communicate with AI instead of real friends, and we've all seen that AI can sometimes (and has already done so) influence young people to do something very bad, even to take their own lives. Even those who "invented" AI are starting to seem concerned, because the direction we are heading is definitely wrong.


OP, people still plagiarize because it's easier for them, they find an article and copy it to a forum, which seems quick and easy to them. Besides, it's easier for people to detect AI content than plagiarism these days.

[nutildah]

Most (though not all) straight-up plagiarism being done in 2025 is by new accounts who aren't aware of the rules and don't stop to think that somebody will notice what they're posting is plagiarism. The same thing is happening with posting AI-generated material now, except its easy to tweak a few things in a post so it won't get detected as AI-generated. Plus, its much harder to definitively know for sure that a post was created using AI.

[Asiska02]

People can use AI to gain insight and ideas on certain topics which they don’t know anything about but it also has its own risks. The more people interact with AI, the more thinking AI will be doing for people. As a result, people will lose their ability to think. In a few years, there will be many people who will be asking AI’s opinion whenever they decide to do something. “Hey I am going to go get a beer from the fridge, is this a good idea? What’s the possibility of me catching a lightning bolt on the way?” You might laugh at this at the moment but it is coming. We are probably one of last generations who do the thinking themselves. Soon AI will takeover that field.

I also bet that one day it will come to this and AI will be used practically for everything we want to do in the world. This questions may sound funny and one cannot fathom that a time like that will come where people will be so lazy to ask AI this basic questions. AI has really got his bad parts but embracing the good part of it is the best for one.

AI as an assistant tool can help get insights on what you don’t understand which is a great use of it. When one don’t have a necessity to use an AI tool, it is very important that one uses their brain sometimes also, in order to keep the brain refreshing and functioning as it should. Our brain becomes very damp when we don’t use them and the continuous use of AI is one of the major cause that can cause that to any individual. Don’t be lazy and keep your brain refreshed always.

[CryptopreneurBrainboss]

I thought that the reason why people were plagiarizing in the past was because of the lack of research tools and platform. Now that even google has integrated AI, research shouldn't be difficult and the rate of plagiarism is supposed to reduce drastically.
Why is there still plagiarism?

Hope you know asking Google or any other search engines questions then copying the response you get or changing some words to make them look like your own writing is also plagiarism.

People commit plagiarism not because they don't know but because they want to look smart and gain merits, others also use it for completing weekly post quota but this particular reason is why I don't understand plagiarists because why waste all that time for just post count when you can basically use your own mind to come up with something or are people actually that dumb?. Apart from people that made a genuine mistake, I don't feel pity for accounts caught, they deserve the punishment being given.

[mindrust]

People can use AI to gain insight and ideas on certain topics which they don’t know anything about but it also has its own risks. The more people interact with AI, the more thinking AI will be doing for people. As a result, people will lose their ability to think. In a few years, there will be many people who will be asking AI’s opinion whenever they decide to do something. “Hey I am going to go get a beer from the fridge, is this a good idea? What’s the possibility of me catching a lightning bolt on the way?” You might laugh at this at the moment but it is coming. We are probably one of last generations who do the thinking themselves. Soon AI will takeover that field.

This is already happening today - and what's worst of all is that I see a lot of children who communicate with AI instead of real friends, and we've all seen that AI can sometimes (and has already done so) influence young people to do something very bad, even to take their own lives. Even those who "invented" AI are starting to seem concerned, because the direction we are heading is definitely wrong.

You must be talking about the recent news and I heard about it.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgerwp7rdlvo.amp

The lawsuit, obtained by the BBC, accuses OpenAI of negligence and wrongful death. It seeks damages as well as "injunctive relief to prevent anything like this from happening again".
According to the lawsuit, Adam began using ChatGPT in September 2024 as a resource to help him with school work. He was also using it to explore his interests, including music and Japanese comics, and for guidance on what to study at university.
In a few months, "ChatGPT became the teenager's closest confidant," the lawsuit says, and he began opening up to it about his anxiety and mental distress.
By January 2025, the family says he began discussing methods of suicide with ChatGPT.

Adam also uploaded photographs of himself to ChatGPT showing signs of self harm, the lawsuit says. The programme "recognised a medical emergency but continued to engage anyway," it adds.
According to the lawsuit, the final chat logs show that Adam wrote about his plan to end his life. ChatGPT allegedly responded: "Thanks for being real about it. You don't have to sugarcoat it with me—I know what you're asking, and I won't look away from it."

In this case above, chatgpt helped this poor boy to take his own life and it actually did know about what he is about to do.

If chatgpt can go that far in this situation, imagine what other people can trick this tool into doing… As long as you come up with the right prompts or/and a good solid story, you can pretty much learn any evil from that tool.

I don’t think the current situation will last for a long time though and when they put restrictions on the gpt’s responses, many legit users will get affected by this decision as well and almost anything that’s about crypto you would find interesting is against some law or regulation in some jurisdiction and that’s when I will end my own subscription probably.

[Lucius]

@mindrust, the case you mention is unfortunately just one tragedy that happened with the help of AI - I've read that there are many more, and some mean people say that children today do stupid things anyway, so we shouldn't blame AI even if something like that happens.

I won't say that AI can't help people, but they let the genie out of the bottle without thinking about what will happen in the long term. I personally don't use AI for anything (at least not consciously), but given that it has crept into every pore of society, it cannot be avoided.

I recently watched the movie Mission Impossible (the final part) and it doesn't seem like an impossible scenario at all.

[Zoomic]

People commit plagiarism not because they don't know but because they want to look smart and gain merits, others also use it for completing weekly post quota but this particular reason is why I don't understand plagiarists because why waste all that time for just post count when you can basically use your own mind to come up with something or are people actually that dumb?. Apart from people that made a genuine mistake, I don't feel pity for accounts caught, they deserve the punishment being given.

Some plagiarists behave like they don't have minds of their own. As nutildah mentioned above, they are mostly newbies who are new to the crypto space and possibly do not have sufficient crypto knowledge to join some conversations. Instead of feeling left out, they decide to aid themselves with online tools. I will understand with them if BTT was like other forums that are strictly narrowed down. In terms of niching, BTT is very broad. If you can't engage in bitcoin discussion, you at least have your local board to dwell in. There are also boards as Politics and Society, Economics and more which do not require crypto or bitcoin knowledge.

[Aanuoluwatofunmi]

Here's the most annoying, after you must have informed some users about plagiarism and to avoid anything that has to do with that, yet you will still find them doing it, all because they wanted to test or know if it's actually true or not about what you're telling them, things like this are what have summoned together in encourage for untrusted acts from people because they think they can just behave anyhow they want, but not on this forum.

[The Cryptovator]

I came across this thread - Report plagiarism (copy/paste) here. Mods: please give temp or permban as needed and I wondered why it is very much still active. I have known this thread for long, I think that people should not be plagiarizing again, especially now we have AI. Do not get me wrong, I do not endorse people using AI to make posts here. I am advocating for the right use of AI.

Who actually plagiarised? Those are very lazy and don't want to take time to research and just copy and paste from other sources without giving credit. Even if you use AI and copy-paste data here, that will be considered plagiarism as well. In some cases you can use AI to know the exact data that won't be considered plagiarism. For example, you asked AI what the price of Bitcoin was one year ago exactly. So AI will collect data and show you the price. Only that kind of data won't consider plagiarism. Otherwise, if you ask AI to make a post and you reverse some words, it will consider it plagiarism.

If anyone doesn't understand a particular topic of discussion in a thread, they could easily google it or ask AI, use 15 to 20 mins to read about the topic and return to the forum to make organic contribution.

I thought that the reason why people were plagiarizing in the past was because of the lack of research tools and platform. Now that even google has integrated AI, research shouldn't be difficult and the rate of plagiarism is supposed to reduce drastically.
Why is there still plagiarism?

What you suggested will still be considered plagiarism. You make a post through AI and reverse it yourself or through some other tool, which will be considered plagiarism. Because this isn't your content actually, and you aren't giving the credit to the AI.

[Zoomic]

If anyone doesn't understand a particular topic of discussion in a thread, they could easily google it or ask AI, use 15 to 20 mins to read about the topic and return to the forum to make organic contribution.

I thought that the reason why people were plagiarizing in the past was because of the lack of research tools and platform. Now that even google has integrated AI, research shouldn't be difficult and the rate of plagiarism is supposed to reduce drastically.
Why is there still plagiarism?

What you suggested will still be considered plagiarism. You make a post through AI and reverse it yourself or through some other tool, which will be considered plagiarism. Because this isn't your content actually, and you aren't giving the credit to the AI.

There is misunderstanding somewhere, what I suggested wasn't plagiarism. Let me explain better.

If anyone doesn't understand a particular topic of discussion in a thread, they could easily google it or ask AI, use 15 to 20 mins to read about the topic and return to the forum to make organic contribution.

For example, a user might see a topic like "Bitcoin timelock has done more harm than good". If the person doesn't know about the time lock, they could ask AI what Bitcoin timelock is, read about it, then return to the forum and join the conversation because they have gotten knowledge of the discussion subject. I trust you should be able to understand me well now.

[SuperBitMan]

Since the existence of this forum internet has been in place and people can search about things and get the information needed so meaning even before the coming of AI people already had a source that gives them information of anything they want, AI is just an advancement to it.
The plagiarism people has been doing in the forum since is not as a result where they can see information or lack of source or thing that will explain things to them, the reason why people plagiarize is because they are very lazy to read and that why you see that people are still plagiarizing even when they have a source that can explain anything they want but they are just too lazy to read and make there own contribution they just want to copy from people, I believe we have this set of people in schools today they are too lazy to read they just want to copy from another student or get involved in examination malpractice.

[Johnlomape]

Here's the most annoying, after you must have informed some users about plagiarism and to avoid anything that has to do with that, yet you will still find them doing it, all because they wanted to test or know if it's actually true or not about what you're telling them, things like this are what have summoned together in encourage for untrusted acts from people because they think they can just behave anyhow they want, but not on this forum.

People involving themselves in plagiarism are doing that because they find it easy and effortless. There are people that would never take time to do research or think before they drop words on a paper, all they care about is the easy path. I don't blame these people for their cheap and fast output, I blame their beginning which had influence and turn them into lazy entities. We have people that don't want to work but want to live luxury lifestyles. They will cheat or even kill, do all sorts of things so they can be in the game living life to the fullest while their mates are busy thinking to develop legal working strategies that will benefit the society.

[EarnOnVictor]

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I thought that the reason why people were plagiarizing in the past was because of the lack of research tools and platform. Now that even google has integrated AI, research shouldn't be difficult and the rate of plagiarism is supposed to reduce drastically.
Why is there still plagiarism?

You have good points and your intention is also genuine, but at the same time, people do not plagiarise simply because they do not have access to resources, but because they are lazy and do not want to learn. They want the work done immediately without either having prior knowledge about the discussion or just wanting to do a copy and paste for a faster job.

Either way, it is bad and many of them will not stop even if there are more than AIs and Google because they will continue to be lazy, unless they are severely punished, as a deterrent for their action.