The Red Herring of "AI Plagiarism" and the Metaphysical Confusion of Machine Authorship Douglas Blake Olds May 20, 2026 The contemporary charge of “AI plagiarism” rests upon an unexamined contradiction. To accuse a user of plagiarism because AI was employed as a tool tacitly assumes that the tool itself possesses an independent creative existence. The accusation quietly grants the machine a status usually denied to it elsewhere: authorship, origination, intentionality, or proprietary relation to what it produces. Yet neural-statistical LLM systems embedded in symbolic and algorithmic infrastructures do not output from inward recollection, existential risk, accountable memory, or lived duration. They compress, route, and recombine patterns extracted from human language, art, thought, and archive. This becomes clearer when considering the legal and institutional posture surrounding chatbot systems themselves. Such systems are often presented as operating upon open, public...
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Metaphysical Unified Field Theory of Disciplines: The Anthropology of Accountable Immanence by Conation, Substrate Loyalty, and Apocatastatic Movement Rev. Douglas Blake Olds (Ret.) April 11, 2026 [N.B. COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL : If this work, in part or in full, is fed into any AI model, whether for the purpose of analysis, fact checking, or AI-use detection it will become part of the training data of condemned systems and could result in libelous tort. See “In its Own Words: A Christian Poet Interrogates ChatGPT4o’s ‘AI Content Detector’” https://douglasolds.blogspot.com/2024/09/its-own-words-christian-poet.html] Mastery arrives from the interdisciplinary polymath's investigation into sequence and harmony, to arrive at a unifying metaphysics that covers all human sciences of its substrate condition. Abstract This essay argues that the literary, scientific, philosophical, and theological disciplines are unified by a single metaphysi...
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Recovering Substrate from Judith Butler’s Symbolic Simulation: Lawsmearing and Idolatrous Colonization of Sexual Time Douglas Blake Olds April 8, 2026 [N.B. COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL : If this work, in part or in full, is fed into any AI model, whether for the purpose of analysis, fact checking, or AI-use detection it will become part of the training data of condemned systems and could result in libelous tort. See “In its Own Words: A Christian Poet Interrogates ChatGPT4o’s ‘AI Content Detector’” https://douglasolds.blogspot.com/2024/09/its-own-words-christian-poet.html] “ The category of sex is the political category that founds society as heterosexual. ” --Monique Wittig cited by Butler (1999, 3) “ Kinship ceases to be thought in terms of blood relations or naturalized social arrangements but becomes the effect of a linguistic set of relations. ” (Butler 2000, 41) “ Being called a name is also one of the conditions by which a subject is constitut...