caseybergman.bsky.social
Dad, bioinformatician, ex-expat. Currently working on transposon bioinformatics & infectious disease genomics.
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Congrats! This represents a big shift from prior assumptions based on limited data. In yeast, we see that HTT events initially detected from genomic screens can happen multiple times over short timescales, so HTT in fungi may be even more prevalent that you detect! academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...
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There is usually a benefit to the reputation of the copier if they can convince the audience that the text is their original work, regardless if the lack of attribution is on purpose or by omission. Reputation is important currency in science, and it should be earned honestly.
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To your second point, nobody think IF made these discoveries. But many people incorrectly think IF wrote the text presented, when it is really just copy/paste without quotes.
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It is about the text, which is copyrighted. Copyrighted text has legal restrictions, pure and simple. Hence block quotes. Creators do not benefit when third parties pass off unattributed text as their own original work. The same core argument relates to LLM copyright abuse.
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I respectfully disagree. People consistently give IF credit for content that is copy/pasted from other people’s work without clear attribution, e.g. bsky.app/profile/adc3...
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I was being flippant. Not AI based, but like LLMs, comprised of poorly attributed copyrighted material.
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Thanks for the honest reply. 🙏You are not alone. Hence my concern.
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A blanket disclaimer on unattributed direct copying of text might help readers, but would not deal with the copyright violation issues. It’s a mess IMO
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Maybe. It would take hundreds of hours to correct this. It’s been a pervasive issue for years. YMMV
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Honest question: in the past, did you think the text you read at interactive fly was written by IF authors or primary sources?
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Thanks, but you didn’t really answer my question about who you inferred was the content creator from their presentation. I’ve tried to make these points to them in the past, but it fell on deaf ears 🤷♂️
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Honest question: in the past, did you think the text you read at interactive fly was written by IF authors or primary sources?
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If they are still failing to quote text that is copied verbatim, that is plagiarism in my opinion. Also, turnitin and other plagiarism detectors would agree.
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🤣
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I might be old school, but this is how I’ve taught undergrads for years. Also, turnitin and other plagiarism detectors would agree.
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Providing references is not sufficient. References are appropriate when you are crediting a claim using your own words. When you are copying text verbatim, failure to quote makes the text look original when it isn’t
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Text from original sources is copied verbatim without quoting.
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Nice to hear they’ve improved crediting original sources. Is the verbatim copied text still unquoted?
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I’ve always been shocked that the SDB would permit hosting such extensive copyright abuse
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Helpful to understand its quality by knowing that it’s mostly unattributed plagiarized text from the main sources
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The original LLM for bio, composited of large swaths of unattributed plagiarized text
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