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Fraud on Medium
Strange
I recently read an article on substack that almost amused me. According to that article (and others), people steal other writers’ articles here and then run them through ChatGPT or other AI applications to change them just enough.
Then they set up dummy Medium accounts, using stolen credit cards for the membership fees and publish these articles. From those multiple dummy accounts, they like their “own” articles to drive up earnings.
I almost laughed out loud. Who knew there was so much money in writing?
Don’t these crooks have better ways to use stolen credit cards? Are criminals into ChatGPT to create “good writing” and then patiently wait around, counting their likes and watching their earnings rise by pennies a day?
I almost see them reading the AI “improved” version of a plagiarized article, agonizing whether the story was good now or if they should replace the word “sepulcher” with “grave” or burial chamber” to improve the clarity of the sentence.
Who knew criminals had that much patience? Perhaps I am mistaken, but I always thought crooks are out for the immediate profit from their scams.
I know fraud is on the rise everywhere, but Medium was one of the last places I thought I would find it.
