Abhijit Naskar's Blog - Posts Tagged "plagiarism"

On March 30th an act of plagiarism of my work was brought to my attention by the people of a nation where the plagiarism was committed in a national governmental address. I am not going to name the nation, for I do not want to make my sisters and brothers of that nation subject for global ridicule. If I do it'll be like putting the bad exam grades of a student on the school notice board for the whole school to see. So without mentioning the country I am making this brief address as my response to my work being plagiarized.

On March 28 the President of a certain nation in his address to the people said a few things about the importance of staying home in order to contain the COVID19 situation in his country. And among those few statements was a specific statement - "you can revive economy, but not a corpse", which appears to be taken without giving credit from my COVID19 address to the world which I published on March 24. Now this matter was brought to my attention because the statement of mine went viral in that country after the President's address.

Many people expressed their great disappointment at their leader for actively practicing plagiarism and that too in a time like this - some have called it "dishonesty" and others "academic theft". And I completely understand your disappointment, however, at this moment I am not able to give the matter any special attention, and I urge you, the people from that nation and in fact from all the nations of our homeland earth, to do the same. Here's why.

I don't mind being plagiarized as long as my work is used for the benefit of others. Right now our sole focus should be on stopping the spread of covid19 while helping those in need either personally or through a relief fund, and not on something comparatively so petty as plagiarism. At any other time it may be worth discussing, but right now is not the time. So I repeat, right now is not the time for intellectual debates and arguments, it is time for us humans to come together as humans with only one concern in mind - the health of all of us.

No matter how much
they plagiarize my work,
I won’t say a word to condemn.
No matter how much they
monetize solar energy,
you never hear the sun complain!

It’s okay that limited minds
got to care about such matter.
What does the ocean care about
a few buckets of stolen water!

I am infinite, I am unbound –
Come, steal all I’ve got,
strip me of all my legacy!
I started out as a vagabond,
I’ll gladly perish in vagabondcy.

Download autotune and
everybody is a singer,
download midjourney and
everybody is a painter,

download chatgpt and
everybody is a writer.
This is not innovation, it is fraud,
and those who practice it, are
the lowest form of animals on earth.

Either do something original,
or expand on another’s originality,
with honor and integrity, but never
confuse plagiarism with creativity.

Chatgpt is cheatgpt,
Better do manual labor than lie.
Even onlyfans is more honorable
than content made by Generative AI.

Asking AI to help you
write, is not writing.
Asking AI to tune your
voice, is not singing.

Asking AI to help you
paint, is not painting.
Asking AI to help you
code, is not coding.

Asking AI to help you
create, is not creativity.
Asking AI to build your
dream, is not dreaming.

Asking AI to narrate
books, is not storytelling.
AI oughta do manual labor,
so humans can do the creating.

Welcome to the age of AI, where algorithms
grow bigger, and minds get smaller,
where freedom is the new prison,
character retreats as cave dweller.

Welcome to the age of AI,
where deceit is the new creativity,
where hate is a human right,
malinformation is a legal industry.

Welcome to the age of AI,
where algorithms are still nonsentient,
but so are the people that use them,
mindlessness is trend of the new sapiens.

Welcome to the age of AI, where global goals
are still a dream, only more distant.
Prove me wrong – I beg of you –
Stand up and behave, a proper Sapiens!

I have zero tolerance for the use of AI in any aspect of human creative endeavor. We can make a separate space for AI art, but AI trash passed as human art, is an abomination of creativity – for our imperfections bear the keynote of truth. Art is a testament to human struggle – remove the human, and it’s art no more. Either you are an artist or you use AI, you cannot do both.

It may sound preposterous to digital chimps,
who cannot even walk in a straight line
without asking AI, but those of us humans
still have a functional brain, heart and spine.

I obliterate myself pouring out life,
beyond all known limits of literature,
only to be blamed for my himalayan immensity,
by the religious of hate and nationals of bigotry.

Yet I don’t hate you back, you’re still my children,
someday your own descendants will call your fall.
When I’m pissed at somebody’s stupidity,
I don’t get rude, cruel or violent,
I get extremely patronizing, unbearably brotherly,
that’s my way of not losing control.

First I was a monk, then I was a scientist,
later I was a poet, finally I am the Human Race.
You still hang from the trees,
yet you claim to understand the Himalayas!