This article argues that plagiarism stems from capitalist commodification of language, highlighting labor theft in academia.
This article argues (1) Our concepts of plagiarism are not founded on a theoretically coherent theory of language, but on the commodification of the same under capitalism; (2) the relevant consideration is not intellectual property but the expropriation of another's labor; (3) AI is the apotheosis of this expropriation; and (4) for academics laboring in neoliberal academe, this does not mean that others—professors, colleagues, supervisors—cannot steal your labor.
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