--- title: "Dude Brags About AI Replacing Jobs… in Tweet That He Stole" description: "In a blatant rip-off that serves as a sort of meta-commentary, an AI stan seems to have passed off someone else's promotional tweet as his own." date: "2023-02-28" modified: "2023-02-28" authors: - name: "Noor Al-Sibai" job_title: "Senior Staff Writer" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/nooralsibai" url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/brags-ai-replacing-jobs-tweet" categories: - "Artificial Intelligence" tags: - "chatgpt" - "plagiarism" - "stable diffusion" - "the digest" --- # Dude Brags About AI Replacing Jobs… in Tweet That He Stole ![In a blatant rip-off that serves as a sort of meta-commentary, an AI stan seems to have passed off someone else's promotional tweet as his own.]() *\Image: Getty / Futurism\* ## RIP In an apparently inadvertent meta-commentary, an artificial intelligence stan seems to have passed off someone else's tweet as his own — while hyping up AI's potential for replacing human workers. "RIP website designers," [begins the tweet]() posted by Rowan Cheung, who [per his LinkedIn]() is the founder of a newsletter about AI called *The Rundown*. "This new tool is ChatGPT for UI design. What's even more amazing: it's all editable in Figma." Embedded in the tweet is a video from Galileo AI, a text generator that can spit out lines of user interface design code that [actually launched nearly a year ago](), putting it months ahead of ChatGPT as far as release dates are concerned. The whole premise would barely be enough to register on our radar beyond perhaps an irritated eye roll — except that Cheung appears to almost certainly have copied the tweet nearly word-for-word from another self-described AI enthusiast. The [apparent original]() version of the tweet was posted by marketing industry expert Lorenzo Green more than two weeks prior, back on February 10 — and as you can see, it's clear that Cheung's version is substantively identical. "R.I.P web designers," he wrote. "This is basically ChatGPT for UI design AND is editable in Figma." ## Meta, No Zuck Beyond just being an annoying hazard of using Twitter, this tweet-lifting is also a kind of ironic meta-commentary on AI itself, given that both text and image generators have a [nasty habit of copying their source material]() so closely that it [amount**s** to plagiarism](). Indeed, when *Futurism* contacted Green, he pointed to Getty Images' "[mega lawsuit against Stability AI]()" over copyright infringement that accuses the Stable Diffusion maker of "scraping" data from its archive without permission — an ongoing debacle that could set legal precedents for how these sorts of cases are treated in the future. "The key is in the training data," the marketing guru told *Futurism* of the AI scraping issue. "If developers use ethical data sources they shouldn’t have a problem. If they use copyrighted data sources they will have a problem." While ripping off a tweet isn't exactly the same as stealing a company or individual's intellectual property — which is a very good thing for [kleptomaniac meme accounts like Fuckjerry]() — it's still a curious happenstance given the current, and currently shifting, [public perception of plagiarism]() in the wake of our apparent AI renaissance. As for Cheung himself, Green had but one quip: "It seems like he doesn't know about the Retweet button." **More on AI:** [*Elon Musk Recruiting Team to Build His Own Anti-"Woke" AI to Rival ChatGPT*]() ## Author At Futurism, I've often been drawn to unpacking the narratives that underlie technological, scientific and medical progress, with a special interest in areas of conflict and ambiguity that end up setting agendas and steering the fates of both elites and the hoi polloi. I'm a committed generalist, but I often find myself returning to work involving NASA and the private space sector, the effects of AI on media and society, and the mechanics of the pharmaceutical industry, with a specific focus on the spread of GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy. Prior to Futurism, I worked for publications ranging from Media Matters and Truthdig to Raw Story and Bustle. I'm also the author of "Myspace Scene Queens," a 2024 title in Instar Books' acclaimed "Remember the Internet" series. My work at Futurism has been cited by outlets including the New Yorker, Slate, Nieman Lab, the Verge, the MIT Technology Review, the Sunday Times, and the Daily Beast. I grew up in North Carolina, attended the University of North Carolina at Asheville, and now live in Brooklyn, New York. In my free time, I'm an avid reader and music fan; you can probably find me at a local poetry reading, concert, underground rave, or DJ set. I'm the proud parent of an ineffable orange cat named Mee-Mow. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()