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What is plagiarism? How do I avoid it? How do I address it when I see it?

Stack Exchange questions and answers are written by you, the members of the Stack Exchange community. Your work is valuable to the community, and you get credit in the form of reputation for the value ...
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5 votes

Editing an answer to remove a section plagiarised from your own answer?

You answered it first. But yours lacked depth, details, and formatting, compared to hers. People usually vote up beautifully formatted and detailed answers more. Can't say she copied yours - maybe she ...
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What is plagiarism? How do I avoid it? How do I address it when I see it?

I have a few quibbles with this answer. Is this effort even necessary? Has there been some increase in plagiarism lately on ELU? Or some particularly egregious cases? Anything that requires ...
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3 votes

Announcement: AI generated answers are officially banned here

Good luck enforcing it. The problem isn't attribution however. The AI is trained on patterns. As soon as someone creates their own model, the only way you can tell it might have been generated from AI ...
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3 votes

Announcement: AI generated answers are officially banned here

Your first dot-point together with comments below the question suggest that AI-generated material is not permitted on EL&U (main) even as attributed sources. If we find something on the internet ...
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3 votes

Editing an answer to remove a section plagiarised from your own answer?

The purpose of editing is to clarify or otherwise improve a post. Feel free to add citations and attribution when it is clear what the probable sources are (e.g. a direct quote containing many words). ...
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