Text-similarity researcher: culture is memetic copying, so LLM 'plagiarism' ring hollow
RexDouglass · x · 2026-09-23
RexDouglass, who works on large-scale text similarity, argues that anyone in the field holds no illusion of originality: culture itself is an evolutionary process of memes copied thousands of times, permuted, remixed, and slightly mutated.
- Human brains regurgitate memes constantly too — they just don't keep a paper trail; LLMs do exactly what humans do, transparently and with a record.
- His punchline: calling LLM-assisted writing "plagiarism" is itself a regurgitated meme.
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