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Vincent Driessen discovered that Microsoft used an AI-mangled, plagiarized version of his hand-crafted 2010 Git workflow diagram on a Microsoft Learn page about GitHub. The reproduced graphic bore clear signs of AI generation — garbled text like 'continvuocly morged' and nonsensical arrows — while still being obviously derived from his original work. Microsoft quietly removed the image after being called out, offering no public apology or comment. The incident highlights growing concerns about AI models reproducing copyrighted material nearly verbatim, the lack of human oversight in content pipelines, and the broader copyright implications of training generative models on scraped creative works.

Microsoft Uses Plagiarized AI Slop Flowchart To Explain How Git Works