One of my forum topics has been published without my consent.
oih82w8
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Not an April Fools prank.
I was doing some browsing on one of my coins and found that one of my forum topics has been published in a blog a little under a month ago. Alough it is not verbatim, the subjects are exact. The CAC outcome at the bottom of the article is oncorrect with their findings. Has this happened to anyone else?
My original forum thread;
Has anyone heard of Dre Dyson?
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Didn't even try to read his at that site is covered with cra*, but that's sad to hear.
I don't think it's ever happened to me, but ???
“We are only their care-takers,” he posed, “if we take good care of them, then centuries from now they may still be here … ”
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I saw the same thing with a CoinTalk post of mine.
The website seems to copy some or all of the wording and then rearrange it or reword things to sound different or offer some added thoughts. It has the feel of some "AI" summaries that I have seen outside of coins.
It’s a bit weird but probably not worth the effort to do anything about it.
Are you flattered or a little ticked-off?
This is happening in online publishing today and the scrapers will find content and publish it as "original", it is also happening in the book world. Unfortunately this is the future and nothing can stop it.
AI generated?
As HalfDime noted, this type of thing is widespread on the internet these days.
In reading the pirated piece, I’m thinking that there’s a lot of AI in there- as cameonut2021 suggested.
At least they didn’t rip off the photos too and take your material verbatim, though that’s some small comfort.
Personally, I find this sort of thing very annoying.
Several years ago, when (a big and very popular social media site) was fairly new, I had a page and developed a pretty large following too. I was having fun with it and understood that there was some risk of my losing control of the images. All I asked for was that I be given photo credit when shared.
Well, what happened was ALL of the images from my page were ripped off and incorporated into an entirely new page- without my permission and of course- no photo credits, with someone else taking all the credit.
Attempts to get it pulled down were so frustrating and aggravating, that I soon just closed my account- for good.
Yes, I’m a bit of an old fashioned grump, but this, and other blatant examples of intellectual property being ripped-off, with little recourse, has left me permanently soured on much of social media.
So, in answer to your question…. yes, this sort of thing has happened.
I suspect it’s happening to many of us, though most cases go undetected.
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I m not a legal beagle, but once you post anything on an open forum like this do you have any recourse if someone uses it?
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That sucks.
It's my understanding (I'm not a lawyer either) that once you post something here or on any other internet forum, the content you post belongs to the forum. This is clearly implied by that little copyright notice at the bottom of every forum page: that copyright is held in the name of "Collectors Universe", not your name. So technically, it becomes the forum admin's job to hunt down and prosecute content thieves.
Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, "Meditations"
Apparently I have been awarded the DPOTD twice.
"When providing us with content or causing content to be posted using our Services, you grant Collectors Universe a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, right to exercise any and all copyright, publicity, trademark, and database rights and other intellectual property rights you have in the content, in any media known now or that may be developed in the future. Further, to the fullest extent permitted under applicable law, you waive your moral rights and promise not to assert such rights or any other intellectual property or publicity rights against us or our assignees."
From here: https://www.collectors.com/termsofuse
Of course, you retain copyright -- subject to any assignments in the terms & conditions of the site -- but asserting that is difficult, especially if it's been hallucinated through an AI (you are well outside of established case law).
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