That's right. And nobody is complaining about non-plagiarized news or articles.

Bots are not perfect, but we need something to help sift through the tons of plagiarized content here.

Google is a search engine, and Steemit is not.

I wonder how people will feel when their Steemit post gets copy and pasted by someone else and the user copying their work makes 5k and they made 5 cents. That user would scream bloody murder and try to get the Steemit " authorities" to do something about it. But that same user would have no problem at all taking the content of someone outside of Steemit in order to make a profit for themselves.

Greed, theft, a lack of ethics and some odd mental block that keeps them from seeing that what they are doing is all of these things. They blame the victim (the content creator) for putting the content on the web in the first place where it apparently becomes free to pilfer and suggest that the content creator should have to track down those that are using their work without permission rather than the abuser ask the content creator for permission in the first place.

The more I think about this issue the more contempt I have.