plagiarize
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In a Sunday editorial, the Boston Globe asked, “Did Claudine Gay plagiarize or not? Harvard should be clear.”
From Washington Times ● Dec. 20, 2023
"All it does is plagiarize what has been fed into the system and is not capable of writing anything."
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2023
In the quickly evolving area of AI imagery, Adobe has tried to position itself as a responsible industry citizen by offering products that won’t plagiarize or create offensive imagery.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 12, 2023
“Those are pretty reasonable demands for the true human authors of the work — to not have some system take all of our content and plagiarize it,” Stutzman said.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2023
“We’re not going to plagiarize her. Filmmakers create stories based on true events all the time. It’s a common thing.”
From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day
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Like AI art, writing generated by AI both plagiarizes and takes away from real, living artists and their craft, training and livelihood.
From Salon ● Feb. 25, 2023
As it happens with even the best storytellers, Questlove unfortunately — and one hopes unwittingly — at times plagiarizes his own work.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 20, 2021
After the claim made by the Raisens, CeCe Peniston wrote on Instagram that “Truth Hurts” plagiarizes her classic ‘90s hit, “Finally,” calling it “a clear example of #copyrightinfringement.”
From Washington Times ● Oct. 23, 2019
After the claim made by the Raisens, CeCe Peniston wrote on Instagram that “Truth Hurts” plagiarizes her classic ’90s hit, “Finally,” calling it “a clear example of #copyrightinfringement.”
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 23, 2019
In leaving home, Shylock's French plagiarizes the Jew's speech to Jessica, even down to the doubt the Jew has about leaving his house at all.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 by Various
“Probably 99% of these books are meant to trick customers into buying something that is either plagiarized or filled with misinformation or incredibly thin content that was generated by an LLM,” Hunter said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
"The book was pulled from publication because Hill plagiarized portions of it."
From BBC ● May 13, 2026
These manuscripts often contain fabricated data, manipulated or stolen images, plagiarized text and sometimes claims that are scientifically impossible.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 7, 2026
When she refused, they copied the post to a blogging website, backdated it, and then claimed she had plagiarized it in an example of copyright infringement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2024
It was heavily plagiarized from a work written thirty years earlier by the Oneida Community’s founder.
From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow
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Arday resigned this month amid allegations of plagiarizing his doctoral thesis and fabricating parts of his life story.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
The scandal erupted after some academics and media reports accused Arday, who became Cambridge University's youngest Black professor in 2023, of plagiarizing parts of his doctoral thesis.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
On Monday, a federal judge in Florida dismissed with prejudice a copyright lawsuit that accused Swift of plagiarizing a self-published poet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
On Twitter, Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin directly accused Sun of plagiarizing from his crypto white papers, which Sun denied.
From Slate ● Dec. 3, 2024
“One of my first CDs. My sister wanted it, so she gave it to me for Christmas. Do you always resort to plagiarizing song lyrics to impress a girl?”
From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx
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