Furious AI Users Say Their Prompts Are Being Plagiarized
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Furious AI Users Say Their Prompts Are Being Plagiarized
""Make your own prompts" isn't advice. It's basic integrity.I'm honestly fed up.Changing a few words, renaming the prompt, or slightly rephrasing it doesn't make it yours, the idea is still the same, the vibe is the same, and the results are obviously similar.And no, this...- Amira Zairi (@azed_ai) January 6, 2026"
"'prompt thieves in the AI art community,'"
"'without knowing it's mine.'"
Some experienced users of generative image tools treat their exact prompts as proprietary assets and accuse others of plagiarizing them. A prominent AI educator publicly complained that minor rewording of prompts still produces the same vibe and results, calling prompt creation a matter of basic integrity. Similar complaints and strong reactions have appeared across communities, with other creators alleging prompt theft and possessiveness. The situation highlights tensions between prompt craft, community norms, and the broader reality that generative models were trained on large corpora of human artwork, often gathered without explicit consent.
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