However it is also dumb. If you actually own the content you are posting and have previously posted it elsewhere it can eventually lead to you being put on a list and it will start flagging your posts. Since there isn't really a person behind it it can be difficult for people to get off that list even after proving multiple times and ways that they own and produce the content.
Ahhh... I did not know that
tricky, yeah.
undoubtedly, there is some real value in the bot - able to catch those plagiarizing. yet, with it's drawbacks, as you address.
perhaps an update could include verification of a user's owning accounts on different social media sites they might be posting 'duplicate' content from, so as to preemptively exclude such from the bots' alarms getting triggered. yet even then, what'd stop the user from plagiarizing on those others sites...
the yin & yang...
I use Keybase to cryptographical prove my identity across sites. However a bot would not need to be so complex, just issue a random string or pass phrase the person would need to post on the other site. There could still be problems - sometimes a person's content be it words, photos, audio or video is already plagiarized but the bot doesn't know which site is the original one that an author should claim.
Mostly I think that bots should always have a complaint mechanism to their human controller. If they can't respond to requests for review add redress of wrongful actions a bot should be banned from the system IMO
That's not a bad idea...