An Indian founder recently shared a long and well-written reflection on AI and how it is contributing to cognitive decline – only for internet sleuths to discover that his entire post had been copy-pasted from a Florida CEO. The CEO took to LinkedIn to share his thoughts on AI, but readers soon discovered they were not his thoughts at all.
Instead, the entire post was copy-pasted from Greg Isenberg, the Florida-based CEO of Late Checkout.
HT.com has reached out to the CEO accused of copy-pasting content. This copy will be updated on receiving a response.
Who is Vihan Pratap Singh?
Vihan Pratap Singh’s LinkedIn profile identifies him as the founder and CEO of Blackrose, a quantitative trading firm headquartered in Gurgaon. He shared a post that the internet later discovered was plagiarized.
What did he post on LinkedIn?
On Sunday, Singh shared a LinkedIn post about meeting a Computer Science graduate from IIT Bombay. “He kept pausing mid-sentence, searching for words. Not complex words - basic ones. Like his brain was buffering,” wrote the CEO of Blackrose about the IIT graduate.
When asked what the issue was, the IIT graduate supposedly replied, “Sometimes I forget words now. I'm so used to having ChatGPT complete my thoughts that when it's not there, my brain feels... slower.”
{{/usCountry}}When asked what the issue was, the IIT graduate supposedly replied, “Sometimes I forget words now. I'm so used to having ChatGPT complete my thoughts that when it's not there, my brain feels... slower.”
{{/usCountry}}Singh went on to talk about AI and how it is increasingly being used for writing, problem solving and even thinking. “We're running the first large-scale experiment on human cognition. What happens when an entire generation outsources their thinking?” he asked.
Was the entire post copy-pasted?
The entire post was plagiarised word to word from a post shared by Greg Isenberg in December 2024, with only minor changes.
Isenberg, for example, said that he met a Stanford graduate. Singh changed that to an IIT graduate in his post.
How did the plagiarism come to light?
The plagiarism was discovered when X user Shobhit Bakliwal posted about it. “This guy straight up stole the post and added IIT-B CS grad,” Bakliwal posted on X, sharing a screenshot of Singh’s post alongside the original post from Isenberg.
X users were brutal in their backlash against the Gurgaon-based CEO for copy-pasting and trying to pass off someone else’s words as his own.
“There’s a reason he is the Founder and CEO of his one person company,” wrote one X user. “He could have at least asked ChatGPT to rewrite this text,” another said.