Dude, if you gonna steal my story...at least change the title.

SOOOOOOO! I wrote this 3 (three) months ago.

And I just saw this pop up today, 12/3/2026 (Sorry, Vocal removed the thread, thankfully).

I am still deciding on which emotion to display here. Rage, ennui, laughter, pity or just downright ire and indifference.

Needless to say - I am ticked off.

We all need help to write our articles, we do research, ask AI to clarify some points which we don't fully grasp and sometimes use quotes from others, mostly famous people. We get ideas from the writings of others, while supporting their writing. Such ideas we conjure into our own stories.

But we do not categorically just swipe someone's story, title and all and blatantly display it as our own work for all to see.

It does not matter how - where - when or why we concocted our story...but it is in the end...ours only. Not meant to be a tool to be replicated by anyone.

AI is great with grabbing and reusing...but at least it rewords a title.

Just changing a few of the words does not make for you an authentic story.

I am far from flattered.

I am just wondering how many more I have missed.

Is this happening to others.

Vocal has enough on its hands without having to bother them with imposters.

I will not comment on this story so they can make a ha'penny off of Vocal either.

Vocal, can we have a 'cease and desist' caption to tag unto a pilfered story...or something to that effect.

This is so not funny!