quantified 4 days ago

Is it plagiarizing when you copy stuff that isn't even factual? Merriam-Webster: > : to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source

I guess so.

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geor9e 4 days ago

I think you briefly forgot the whole genre of fiction exists

dsr_ 4 days ago

No, it's academic dishonesty: representing work that you did not do as your own work.

ETA: "Academic dishonesty" also covers things like falsifying data and willfully misattributing sources, which is a closer approximation to this case.