🚨🚀BREAKING: 16th-century philosophers were basically the ChatGPTs of their time, mindlessly churning out words with all the #creativity of a broken record. 🎨🤯 Who knew the #Renaissance was just a glorified content mill? 🤷‍♂️🖋️
https://aeon.co/essays/who-needs-ai-text-generation-when-theres-erasmus-of-rotterdam #Philosophy #ContentMill #ChatGPT #BrokenRecord #HackerNews #ngated

If you're wondering what James Somerton did in response to HBomberGuy's video exposé: he deleted his videos on YouTube or set their visibility to private, put his Patreon on hold, then disappeared for a few days.

Then, a couple of days ago, James Somerton reappeared to make an apology video.
Sorta.
He said the word "sorry", and looked sad at losing his credibility and main source of income. I believe he was genuinely upset about that. This disaster has been bad for his personal and professional relationships, and is causing a financial problem. It's clear to see it's been extraordinarily bad for his mental health, and it's easy to feel sympathy for him on that count.

But, James Somerton failed to address the plagiarism. He hardly said the word at all. Instead, he attributed the public outcry to poor referencing/citation style. And, he said he's restarting his Patreon and will make more videos.

The public reaction to such an awful apology was about as negative as you'd expect. A few hours later, James Somerton deleted his apology video.

I think James Somerton isn't sorry for his plagiarism. I think he doesn't believe it's a problem. I think he doesn't truly understand what plagiarism is.

#HBomberGuy #iilluminaughtii #JamesSomerton #YouTube #Plagiarism #ContentMill #VideoEssay #LGBTQIA

Hbomberguy Didn’t Want to Make That 4-Hour Plagiarism Video
https://www.vulture.com/2023/12/hbomberguy-interview-james-somerton-plagiarism.html

This interview by Rebecca Alter with Hbomberguy covers a range of topics raised in his video, and draws-out some thought-provoking insights.

#HBomberGuy #iilluminaughtii #JamesSomerton #YouTube #Plagiarism #ContentMill #VideoEssay #LGBTQIA

HBomberGuy has released a video of additional material that didn't make it into the main video for time reasons because it was already running over four hours. It adds more info about plagiarism by illuminaughtii. This deserves some time in the spotlight because discussion of her plagiarism has been overshadowed by discussion of her also-awful emotional and financial abuse of ex-employees, ex-collaborators and ex-boyfriends.
https://youtu.be/403eGkWv4MA?si=qUdgOiFDDpByo5sg

#HBomberGuy #iilluminaughtii #JamesSomerton #YouTube #Plagiarism #ContentMill #VideoEssay

Last night, I watched the new HBomberGuy video; it's a brilliant extrusion!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDp3cB5fHXQ

If you've been getting déjà vu from some prolific YouTube creators, particularly big video-essay channels such as Iilluminaughtii and James Somerton, chances are their secret trick is plagiarism.
Often, I've wondered if they're on a personal mission to produce a weekly series of unauthorised audiobooks of Wikipedia articles. Or they're a content-mill powered by uncredited contributors, and ripping-off the research of journalists. Worse, they're getting paid a load of money by sidelining up-and-coming talent, or silencing the voices of people in a marginalised community or deceased activists and artists.

#HBomberGuy #iilluminaughtii #JamesSomerton #YouTube #Plagiarism #ContentMill #VideoEssay #LGBTQIA

@brembs And here was me thinking they were profitable enough already without turning into such a blatant #contentmill

Ich finde ja @pallenberg und das, was er macht, so richtig gut - auch das hier. Trotzdem hoffe ich, dass das Projekt spektakulär und peinlich scheitert. https://mastodon.social/@pallenberg/110383615762288870 #ki #gpt #contentmill

@lolennui I've always thought of #Buzzfeed as a particularly crass #ContentMill. I learned the reflex of not following Buzzfeed links very early in Buzzfeed's history.