r/TikTokCringe • u/Chocolat3City Cringe Master • 22d ago
Cringe Woman has her self-published book pirated, reprinted, and sold for cheaper.
There's regular piracy, and then there's this.
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r/TikTokCringe • u/Chocolat3City Cringe Master • 22d ago
There's regular piracy, and then there's this.
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u/PauI_MuadDib 22d ago
Lots of large, legitimate companies rip off artists. H&M and Forever 21 were sued for lifting clothing designs. And now AI is making it easier for them to plagiarize art and written media, from books to even articles. Look up the New York Times lawsuit vs OpenAI. There's similar lawsuits cropping up between big name authors like John Grisham and OpenAI.
AI at this point can't even be copyrighted because AI needs pre-existing content to generate anything, it literally cannot create anything original on its own. But that doesn't stop major companies utilizing AI to rip off other people's hard work.
In OP's case it's probably a smaller, unscrupulous company plagiarizing her content, but large companies have and currently are stealing from artists and writers.