I thought that the reason why people were plagiarizing in the past was because of the lack of research tools and platform. Now that even google has integrated AI, research shouldn't be difficult and the rate of plagiarism is supposed to reduce drastically.
Why is there still plagiarism?
Hope you know asking Google or any other search engines questions then copying the response you get or changing some words to make them look like your own writing is also plagiarism.
People commit plagiarism not because they don't know but because they want to look smart and gain merits, others also use it for completing weekly post quota but this particular reason is why I don't understand plagiarists because why waste all that time for just post count when you can basically use your own mind to come up with something or are people actually that dumb?. Apart from people that made a genuine mistake, I don't feel pity for accounts caught, they deserve the punishment being given.