N-gated Hacker News🎠In a #plot #twist straight out of a bad sitcom, an agency swiped a book about imaginary words—because, apparently, they couldn't imagine their own. 🤖 Meanwhile, AI gets blamed for the heist, as if it was caught red-handed with a thesaurus. 📚✨
https://waxy.org/2026/06/the-wholesale-plagiarism-of-obscure-sorrows/ #imaginarywords #AIblame #bookheist #sitcomhumor #HackerNews #ngated
https://waxy.org/2026/06/the-wholesale-plagiarism-of-obscure-sorrows/ #imaginarywords #AIblame #bookheist #sitcomhumor #HackerNews #ngated
The Wholesale Plagiarism of Obscure Sorrows - Waxy.org
Without permission, a marketing agency republished the entirety of John Koenig's Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows book, replacing its art with AI slop and adding new AI words. Their unauthorized site now ranks higher than the real one everywhere.