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  The Red Herring of "AI Plagiarism" and the Metaphysical Confusion of Machine Authorship: Style over Substance Douglas Blake Olds May 20, 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] Precis: Seve Claims Are Advanced AI cannot plagiarize because it lacks human predicates of authorship. Humans can still plagiarize through AI if they conceal violated original sources. The burden of proof rests on those who suspect that original sources have been plagiarized, including the burden of specifying the criteria by which such AI plagiarism is determined. The use of "plagiarism detecting soft...