Has Name of Responsibility lastly peaked? | This Week in Enterprise
I suppose an explanation for that headline is called for here.
For a few years now, we've been seeing a specific kind of plagiarism of our work. There are a surprisingly large number of websites out there populated by stolen writing that has been passed through a word replacement filter to avoid detection.
On the surface, it's almost a clever idea, using a thesaurus to swap out synonyms and winding up with a seemingly original piece of writing that avoids identification as a cheap knock-off.
In practice, it has... issues.
QUOTE | "Has Name of Responsibility lastly peaked? | This Week in Enterprise" – The headline of one such plagiarized article from November of 2021.
QUOTE | "Has Call of Duty finally peaked? | This Week in Business" – The headline of the source article, a This Week in Business column where I wondered if the Activision shooter series had begun its inevitable decline. (Spoiler: It had not.)
The headline is weird enough, but the body text takes it up a notch.
QUOTE | "2008's World at Struggle was an opportunity to carry a few of the shine of Trendy Warfare again to the World Struggle 2 setting that spawned the army shooter growth within the first place (and launched the favored Zombies recreation mode)." – An excerpt from the knock-off article.
QUOTE | "2008's World at War was a chance to bring some of the shine of Modern Warfare back to the World War 2 setting that spawned the military shooter boom in the first place (and introduced the popular Zombies game mode)." – The same excerpt from the genuine article.
Clearly, this sort of plagiarism runs into problems when it encounters proper nouns made up of standard words, an idea further backed up by that column's discussion of other Name of
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