#NO TO PLAGIARISM

[lunaxstella]

Muse

She wanders again On the depths of her void; She's floating in there With her eyes closed, With her heart open.

She's silently looking For something out of her reach. She doesn't know What she wants, But she needs it.

She needs something... She needs it to fill the void; She is hoping for someone Even though she knows It's for naught.

She knows… She knows… She knows who she really needs;

It's not something Or someone; It's her She is the one she's looking for.

But she still needs her muse, Maybe if she finds herself, Maybe if she finally heals, Just maybe… She wants someone to wait for her.

That's the one she's looking for, The one out of her reach, The one she silently needs.

For now, It's just her; Floating, Healing, Wandering, And she'll be her own muse.

#poetry #poem #no to plagiarism #muse #english poem

[getrope1]

You cant make this shit up

#honestly the BALLS to steal the title for your apology video (for plagiarism) from the GUY WHO EXPOSED YOU (for plagiarism) #i do really dislike somerton but i have to respect the grind. fucking incredible. #hbomberguy #james somerton

[cemeterything]

obviously people steal things from other people it's one of the oldest tricks in the book but it still always surprises me to learn that people plagiarise because my introduction to the concept was basically being told that if i ever plagiarised anything i would be executed by firing squad and my head would be removed and displayed on a spike outside the walls of the hallowed academic institution i was attending as a warning to others

#🐉 #like they were not fucking around they were like you will be BLACKLISTED we will EXILE you there may be FINANCIAL RESTITUTION OWED #if our plagiarism software detects anything suspicious we will FLAY YOU ALIVE IN THE TOWN SQUARE #i still wake up in a cold sweat sometimes wondering if i cited my sources correctly

[oocsydney]

hbomberguy highlighting all of the parts where james somerton plagiarized from other queer creators:

#hbomberguy #james somerton #literally the only parts james somerton wrote on his own were the misogynist ones #and it's disgusting to think that james was likely setting up for his script writer to take the fall for all of the plagiarism #UPDATE: apparently the script writer ALSO didn't do any research into what James wrote in his scripts. man. (source: Todd in the Shadows) #todd in the shadows

[talaricula]

Things I've seen tumblr memeing about James Somerton doing à la "How did no one see how bigoted he was!" as if those things haven't been a significant part of tumblr culture for over a decade :

Presenting untrue and bordering on conspiratorial versions of (queer or otherwise marginalised) history without any sources

Completely disregarding and disrespecting any expertise on socio-cultural topics/humanities and distrusting academics and historians (incl. acting as if no academics or historians could be queer or marginalised)

Downplaying the role misogyny played in the historical oppression of queer women and concluding that queer men must have been more oppressed than queer women

Bi women are, at best, not as queer as "real" queer ppl, and at worst, simply equivalent to straight women

Despite nominal trans inclusivity, transmasculine ppl are functionally women when convenient (combined with the above, bi transmascs are functionally straight women)

Despite nominal trans inclusivity (bis), shamelessly attacking, threatening and actively endangering any trans woman who questions them or smth they find important (often by unfairly presenting her as violent or as a threat)

Having absolutely fucking wild and reductive takes about ace ppl, the oppression they face and their place in the queer community

Stating that marriage equality is an assimilationist fight while completely ignoring its direct roots in the horrifying consequences of the AIDS crisis for partners of ppl who died of AIDS

Praising western media creators from the past for queer coding even under censure and in the same breath condemning current non western media creators for being homophobic bc their representation isn't explicit enough

Blaming China for all existing homophobic censoring in western media

Assuming all queer media would be better told by western creators and by western standards

Only out queer ppl get to tell queer stories

Heavily criticising almost all queer media created by women or ppl they see as such (see above points about trans ppl) or involving/starring a significant amount of women for any perceived or real amount of "problematicness", but fawning over and praising and negating criticism of queer media created by and starring mostly or even functionally exclusively men (even when it could be argued that, you know, not involving/seriously sidelining women is a pretty clear example of misogyny which should probably be considered "problematic")

And I'm probably forgetting stuff or there's stuff I have internalised myself and don't recognise as an issue

Like idk but I feel like the takeaway from Hbomberguy and Toddintheshadow's videos should maybe be "be aware of such patterns in your communities bc they definitely exist" and not "this guy is uniquely awful" and I feel like a lot of the discussion I've seen surrounding this has been severely failing at that. Most ppl who've spent any significant amount of time on tumblr prob either have internalised at least one of those thought patterns, have had to de-internalise them, or have had to be extremely vigilant to not internalise them (which is done by, you know, seeking out other sources, which also seemed like an important takeaway from the videos)

#Also I'm saying this as someone who actually watched quite a few of Somerton's videos #And noticed those patterns and stopped watching bc I recognised them from here #and had already learned to unlearn them after being so exposed to them here #And tbh I think anyone who hasn't had the luck or made the conscious choice to seek out ppl who pushed against those narratives #Would absolutely have fallen for this man's bullshit. Like let's not kid ourselves we see takes like this every day on this hellsite #2014 me would have. For sure. #This is next to the plagiarism issue which as Harris points out is an Internet wide issue and this includes tumblr #James Somerton #hbomberguy #todd in the shadows #This brought to you by a conversation with my wife yesterday #So many ppl on here don't deserve to meme or be this self absolvingly critical of this man #The call is coming from inside the house #The man has a tumblr it would legit not surprise me if some of the things he supposedly made up himself he did actually get from somewhere #And that somewhere was a tumblr post

[girlblocker]

preserving this here bc op turned off reblogs

#suggestive #save #edit: this got notes bc theres comments in the notes of other posts by the same guy that were similar #and around this time. the website realized that this user was plagiarizing posts

[louistonehill]

A new tool lets artists add invisible changes to the pixels in their art before they upload it online so that if it’s scraped into an AI training set, it can cause the resulting model to break in chaotic and unpredictable ways. 

The tool, called Nightshade, is intended as a way to fight back against AI companies that use artists’ work to train their models without the creator’s permission. Using it to “poison” this training data could damage future iterations of image-generating AI models, such as DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion, by rendering some of their outputs useless—dogs become cats, cars become cows, and so forth. MIT Technology Review got an exclusive preview of the research, which has been submitted for peer review at computer security conference Usenix.   

AI companies such as OpenAI, Meta, Google, and Stability AI are facing a slew of lawsuits from artists who claim that their copyrighted material and personal information was scraped without consent or compensation. Ben Zhao, a professor at the University of Chicago, who led the team that created Nightshade, says the hope is that it will help tip the power balance back from AI companies towards artists, by creating a powerful deterrent against disrespecting artists’ copyright and intellectual property. Meta, Google, Stability AI, and OpenAI did not respond to MIT Technology Review’s request for comment on how they might respond. 

Zhao’s team also developed Glaze, a tool that allows artists to “mask” their own personal style to prevent it from being scraped by AI companies. It works in a similar way to Nightshade: by changing the pixels of images in subtle ways that are invisible to the human eye but manipulate machine-learning models to interpret the image as something different from what it actually shows. 

Continue reading article here

#Ben Zhao and his team are absolute heroes #artificial intelligence #plagiarism software #more rambles #glaze #nightshade #ai theft #art theft #gleeful dancing

[setaflow]

Gay pride happens in June and gay wrath happens whenever hbomberguy drops a 3+ hour video essay about a specific topic

#hbomberguy #Just watched the full 4 hour plagiarism video and go OFF you funky bisexual king #Also I feel like people casually mention that Internet Historian and that Blare chick should've gotten mentioned more but honestly #Good on him for taking down Luke Stephens too-- who is now afaik a huge channel for video game news #So anyway video good go watch it and go support queer content creators who are not James Somerton :) #See y'all in 2024 when he drops a 5 hour essay on Onion farming or whatever #Seta speaks #top posts #5k #10k

[vanteaux]

Pride flag color picked from that one image in hbomberguy's plagiarism video

Edit: here's the version with more flags!

#hbomberguy #james somerton #plagiarism and you(tube) #i couldn't get this out of my head so its yours now

[coffinwoodx]

like witnessing the french revolution beheadings firsthand in the 1800s

#LET THEM EAT CAKE #and the cake is original ideas #hbomberguy #james somerton #todd in the shadows #plagiarism #twitter #youtube #youtube drama #lgbtq #internet historian #illuminaughtii

[despazito]

Some of the palworld rig comparisons absolutely look sus but if something like this won a plagiarism lawsuit it would actually set a horrible legal precedent for artists please learn what plagiarism means and think very carefully when discussing copyright law

#it's giving fursona plagiarism drama

[lunaxstella]

ANG HULING TULA

(October 14, 2017 - revised)

Ito na ang huling tula Ito ang araw na titigil na sa pagluha Ito na 'yun, ang matagal ko ng kailangan. Kaya naman iiwan ko na dito lahat, Kasama ka at lahat ng alaala.

Una sa lahat, May gusto akong isiwalat. At yun ay ang katagang, "Mahal kita." Hanggang ngayon, "Minamahal kita." Pero umasa ka na pagtapos ng tula, Ang masasabi ko na lang, "Minahal kita."

Pasensya ka na. Pasensya kung ngayon ko lang sinambit 'yan. Pasensya kung naging duwag ako. Pasensya kung mas pinili kong magtago. Pasensya kung hinayaan ko lang na alam mong, "Gusto lang kita"

Siguro'y natakot lang talaga. Sobrang takot ako na mawala, Hindi lang ikaw, kundi ang 'sarili sa hawla'. Takot akong masaktan sa kadahilanang Ayokong makawala sa bakal na rehas Kung saan ay aking ikinulong Ang nagbabadyang demonyo na ayaw kong ipakita. Kaya ika'y isasantabi ko na, Pero sa totoo lang, ayoko sana.

Ayokong mawala. Nawala na nga ako sayo, Pati sa sarili ko pa ba? Kahit masayang mawala sayo, Kailangan ko ng magpakalayo Dahil sa ngayo'y, Aminin ko man o hindi, Puro lungkot na lang ang dulot mo.

Sabihin mo, Pag pinagpatuloy ko, Ang pagiging buwan sa iyo. Pag hindi ako tumigil, Sa kahunghangan na ito, Mamahalin mo din ba ako, Tulad ng pagmamahal ko sayo? Kasi kung oo, Handa akong masaktan hanggang dulo.

Kaso hindi, Hindi ka sigurado. Laging panahon ang sagot mo. "Hayaan ang panahon". Hindi ba pwedeng, Sabihin mo na lang na ayaw mo?

"Ayaw ko sayo." "Hindi pwede ang 'tayo'" Kung tutuusin, Mas matatanggap ko 'yan. Kaysa dito sa ginagawa mo, Kung saan dahan-dahan, Paunti-unti mo akong pinapatay. Tila isang posporong magandang silayan Habang nawawalan ng buhay. Sana naman, Sinabi mo na lang agad.

Mahal, sa kabila ng lahat, Mas pinili ko pa din ang mahalin ka. Kahit sobrang nasasaktan na ako Kahit hindi ko na talaga gusto 'to.

Ang sabi nila, Sa pagmamahal ay kailangan ng sakripisyo Sinubukan ko naman at yun ang ginawa ko. Nanatili ako sa tabi mo Kahit sobrang sakit na, tiniis ko. Kahit di ko alam kung nandito ka pa sa tabi ko.

Para akong tanga na nangangapa, Sa dilim ako'y nawawala, Pinapakinggan ang bawat boses sa aking tainga, Nagbabakasakaling sa iyo'y may makuhang balita, At meron nga.

Meron ka na atang iba? Or should I say, biktima? Pero ayokong magpadalos-dalos O-obserbahan ko muna.

Dumaan ang ilang tahimik na araw Gabi-gabi'y humihiling sa tala, Na sana ika'y di pa lumisan. Pero huli na ata, Meron ka ng iba. Ibang kausap at ang mas malala Mahal mo pa pala siya, Ang iyong tunay na sinisinta.

At dun ko nasabing 'ayoko na'. Lalo na't sa tuwing nakakabasa Ng simpleng sabi-sabi pati tula, Nagbabadya ang mga bwisit na luha, Kahit nga dito sa tulang inilalathala. Nakakainis dahil nagmumukha na akong tanga. Sa harap ng mga taong hindi sa ganito ako nakilala.

Sa tuwing binabalikan ang nakaraan, Lahat ng mga tula at usapan, Bigla na lang mapapangiti sa katangahan, Ang puso'y makakaramdam ng matinding lungkot na di malaman, Ang mata ay mamamasa at parang maluluha At masasabi ko na lang sa sarili, 'ikaw kasi, ang tanga-tanga'.

Napapatanong na lang ako lagi, 'May nangyari ba?' Bakit tumulad ka sa mga bula? Nawala ka na lang bigla. As in, poof. Abrakadabra!

May nasabi ba akong masama? Nakukulitan ka na ba Sa bawat 'ingat ka ha'? Sobra na ba lahat ng lambing at alaga? Sabihin mo, yun lang ba?

O baka ako lang; Ako kasi yung tanga. Ako yung walang kwenta. Ako yung hindi maganda. Baka nga, baka nga. Sana nga yun na lang diba?

Mahal, ang sakit na pero ikaw pa rin talaga. Hanggang ngayon pinapakinggan pa rin ang paborito mong banda. Kung minsa'y binabasa ang mga likha mong obra. Kunwari ako ang nasa piyesa.

Kunwari ako ang prinsesa. Kunwari ako ang sinisinta. Kunwari may 'tayo' kaso wala. Kunwari ako yun, pero hindi pala.

Kaya ititigil ko na, Dahil sobrang nakakatanga. Mas lalo lamang akong umaasa. Ayaw maniwala ng puso ko na wala ka na, Kahit ang totoo ay di ka naman nawala Dahil wala ka talaga, Dahil ako lang, Ako lang ang nagmamahal sa ating dalawa. Ay teka, tayo pala. Ako, sa iyo at ikaw, sa kanya.

Hindi ko na kayang manghula. Para kanino ba lahat ng sinasabi sa 'king tula? Lahat ba yun ay para sa kanya? Sabihin mo na kasi, ano ba! May nalalaman ka pang "hulaan mo", Nakakainis ka!

Pero sige, wag na lang. Baka pag nalaman ko, Mas lalo lang akong masaktan. Lalo na't hinala ko na para 'yun sa kanya. Kaya naman tama na.

Lalo na't ang mga mata'y pipikit-pikit na Dahil muli na namang nagbadya ang mga luha. Kanina kasi'y meron na namang nabasa Isang tula na sa puso ko'y tumatama. Pati itong kanta sa tenga'y di ko na rin kaya Paborito mo kasing banda ang kumakanta. Kaya eto na.

Ito na ang huling tula. Ito ang araw na titigil na sa pagluha. Ito na yun, ang matagal ko ng kailangan.

Sinta, paalam na. Hanggang dito na lang, Ang huling tula, Ang huling luha, Na para sayo, sinta.

- Johanna M.L. “Luna Lone” D. Sibayan

#spoken poetry #filipino #tagalog #poem #poetry #literature #no to plagiarism #thanks #tula

[robinsversion]

How I sleep knowing I always cite my sources:

(First image from the film Drip Dippy Donald (1948); second image from season 4, episode 3 of the Simpsons, “Homer the Heretic” (1992).)

#the irony of me making this post and tracking the sources down at 2am is not lost on me #but it does prove how easy this shit is if I’m doing it with my eyes half closed #James cite your fucking sources #james somerton #hbomberguy #plagiarism #plagiarism and you(tube) #why are you booing me i’m right

[dragonomatopoeia]

i'm always a bit unsettled by disdain for intellectual or creative labor in leftist spaces. there's this commonly held belief that academics are a bunch of rich old white men, rather than a wide variety of people who are barely getting by. most lecturers in universities are adjuncts living paycheck to paycheck. authors make very little money as a general rule. most researchers are overworked and underpaid. and yet there's still this idea that academics are overcompensated to sit around and smoke cigars together while making shit up

#seeing the response to the plagiarism video of 'this is a victimless crime' rubs me the wrong way #these are your fellow workers who are having their work stolen by people making considerably more money #and by and large the people whose work gets stolen are the people who the plagiarists think they can more easily steal from #namely people of color and especially women of color and lgbt people of color #especially the poorest among them without substantial backing or large audiences

[gayshitanddadjokes]

Hbomberguy literally has me writing this assignment thinking "hey did I add any actual information to this topic or am I just rephrasing this article?" and now this fucking 12 slide PowerPoint has used eight sources that I'm using to draw from to get a varied sense of what actually happened and being able to make my own claims based off of multiple sources of information. This assignment would have taken three less hours if I'd done it five days ago. This is an improvement.

#hbomberguy #plagiarism #a

[oliveroctavius]

In Plagiarism and You(Tube), Hbomb says "If you consider something so obscure you can get away with stealing it, you do not respect it." Save that line for the next time someone tries to tell you that Roy Lichtenstein brought respect to comics as art.

It's since been pointed out that while Lichtenstein did copy one of Russ Heath's drawings of an airplane getting hit, the painting depicted above was actually copied off Irv Norvick, because Lichtenstein did this so many times to so many comic artists.

In Lichtenstein's defense, he was doing this in a time when comic artists frequently weren't even credited in the issues themselves. In his condemnation, he never even tried to check, nor has he made any move to pay or credit any of the comic artists who recognized their own work later on. Rather than elevating the "low art" of comics, he was widening the gap of financial success and respect even further.

The Hbomberguy of this story is art historian David Barsalou, who has now spent decades tracking down the original art and the names of the original artists used in Lichtenstein's most famous output. Here's the flickr gallery for the Deconstructing Roy Lichtenstein project. Frequently copied were Tony Abruzzo, Ted Galindo, Mike Sekowsky, Joe Kubert, Jerry Grandenetti, and dozens more Golden Age artists who aren't very well known in comics circles, let alone art history books. Many of them died in poverty. That's something that the Hero Initiative, mentioned in Russ Heath's comic above, aims to prevent.

Also, Lichtenstein didn't even paint Ben-Day dots. That's a specific thing.

#roy lichtenstein #plagiarism #olivertxt #once you've seen them side by side. the original art is virtually ALWAYS more technically solid #art being ''bad'' doesn't make it not art but just the insult of making thousands of times more copying your work *worse* #lichtenstein did a lot of original (or harder to attribute) work later on but the peak of his fame was majority this stuff #comics history