I've discovered yesterday that one of my old posts has been fully plagiarized by another account... You might have heard the same thing mentioned by other authors lately.
I'm not writing this post to complain. In fact, that bot may have done my content a service (I'm not sure), where other bots are concerned, because it links back to my post. I'm sure it is a coincidence, who is behind the bot farm is not in the business of doing favors, it is in the business of extracting value or maybe doing harm.
But that's how I discovered that plagiarized post. Because it mentioned my account. Funnily, I didn't realize it was my own post at the first glance, since I was scanning for the shout out, to see in what context I have been mentioned. At first, I couldn't find any mention, which seemed very strange. How could there be no mention when I was notified of a mention? I thought maybe the author edited the post and removed the mention, but no. I eventually found it. It was in the footer "Posted using Leofinance Beta". Yes, it said Leofinance, so prior to Inleo. If you know, that links back to the same post. But since the bot was dumb enough to take the entire content of my post, it took that link too. That's how I discovered the plagiarized post... and used my downvote button for the first time in a while.
AI's idea of a 'bot farm'
So, there you go. If the bot farm continues as is, with the same algorithm that takes the full content of the original post, Inleo (and previously Leofinance) content has an anti-bot leverage. You may get notified when your content gets plagiarized, and get the chance to throw a downvote and even a comment to make sure others know it's plagiarized. Without any rewards, and with a dropping reputation, this mass plagiarizing abuse will eventually stop from the lack of incentives. But it's not easy to convince the owner of a 17k bot farm to give up.
The name of the account can also give you an indication of whether they are part of this particular bot farm that started in Splinterlands in 2021 or not. Check out this post if you want to know more. My plagiarizer met the naming criterion. It's interesting that I don't see the mention on the main front ends. Maybe they filter it out because the accounts are black listed. But in my case, it was a way to discover the plagiarized content and downvote it.
