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Too lazy to cut and paste

11 July 2015 · 4:45 pm · Almost Yogurt, Wastes of Oxygen

Even the plagiarists are becoming indolent:

Yahoo Answers screenshot: Is there a website online that will summarize text for free and make it like its in my own words?

Not only must it do the rewrite job for him, but it must do it for free. A three-toed sloth is Usain Bolt next to this clod.

5 comments

  1. fillyjonk »

    11 July 2015 · 7:43 pm

    There are so many curse words I’d like to say over this attitude.

    It’s a regular evolutionary arms race for people who teach having to ferret out and try to defeat the new ways students find to try to cheat. I admit I have days when I just want to throw up my hands, go “It’s their souls and also THEIR jobs if they do it at work and get caught” and just go my merry way, but I can’t, quite.

  2. CGHill »

    11 July 2015 · 8:33 pm

    You should see the promoted tweet Laura Northrup of Consumerist got today.

  3. McGehee »

    11 July 2015 · 10:17 pm

    I have days when I just want to throw up my hands, go “It’s their souls and also THEIR jobs if they do it at work and get caught”

    Downside: those who don’t get caught (and increasingly, many who do) get elected.

  4. Joseph Hertzlinger »

    11 July 2015 · 11:29 pm

    A sting operation might be called for.

  5. CGHill »

    11 July 2015 · 11:31 pm

    It might at that. There’s a certain joy in watching someone’s skullduggery fail miserably.

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