What I’m most surprised by isn’t the plagiarizing by maalvika, it’s that so many people can’t tell “her writing” is derivative and almost entirely run-through by AI. My eyes glaze over when I try to read heavily AI-assisted work. There’s almost no element of surprise to AI; only twice in the last ~3 years has chatGPT surprised me with its responses. No judgment on using AI from me, I use it a ton myself. I’m just not interested in reading anything majorly done by AI. There’s simply no insight.

Not to mention that her volume of work didn’t match her public profile (PhD candidate + TikTok influencer + podcaster + essayist…maybe she doesn’t sleep!).

I also have a second sense for fraudulent characters. Never been wrong before. In this case, she fits an archetype I’m very familiar with. Upper middle class striver riddled with anxiety over status = will cheat their way through everything. Clocked her immediately last week and was talking about it privately. Glad to have proof now.