AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale

The author argues that AI systems constitute unauthorized plagiarism on a massive scale, as they train on copyrighted content without creator consent or compensation, then sell the results to customers who profit further by redistributing the copied material. The piece illustrates this concern with a personal example: competitors used ChatGPT to copy the author's e-commerce tutorials, ranked higher in Google search results, and accidentally left links to the original source material as evidence of the plagiarism.