Web novel design AI click incident that has been raging since the start of the new year

A work called Becoming the Right Hand of Qin Shi Huang during the Warring States Period, which was selected as the alternative history novel of the year by the web platform Munpia.

https://myuedu.book.qq.com/read/1044476014/1

However, in reality, it was a work called ‘Qin Feng’ that was being serialized on a Chinese website.

It was confirmed that it wasn’t just plagiarism, but that they took the whole piece, translated it with AI, and posted it as a series on Munpia.

What has been confirmed so far is not an effort to change the male lead’s name or the female lead’s name, or to slightly change the plot or development.

It turns out that the entire story was stolen through AI translation and serialized in Munpia.

What’s more problematic is that it wasn’t Munpia who found it, but a reader who found the original work on a Chinese novel site in less than 5 minutes due to suspicion that the text looked like a translation.

The writer who stole it and posted it on Munpia (

The original author was struggling to make a living, but Korea’s Mangsaengi ripped off the work using AI and lost dozens of times the original author’s income.

For reference, the original text is about the annexation of Gojoseon in the latter part of the story, but I don’t know what spirit they copied it from.

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