🗨️ plagiarism is the currency of the internet

I call it “plagiarism is the currency of the internet”:

The Internet, meanwhile, isn’t just about demand — my first mistake — nor is it just about supply — my second mistake. It’s about both happening at the same time, and feeding off of each other. It turns out that the literal meaning of “going viral” was, in fact, more accurate than its initial meaning of having an article or image or video spread far-and-wide. An actual virus mutates as it spreads, much as how over time the initial article or image or video that goes viral becomes nearly unrecognizable; it is now a meme.

• Ben Thompson, The New York Times’ AI Opportunity

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• Source: The New York Times’ AI Opportunity
  • [[Thompson, Ben]]
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