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Vihan Pratap Singh, the founder and CEO of Blackrose, a quantitative trading firm based in Gurgaon, shared the post on LinkedIn.
Vihan Pratap Singh reportedly copied the post from a US-based CEO. (Representative Image)
An Indian startup founder is facing backlash online after Internet users discovered that his viral post on artificial intelligence (AI) was not original. The post, which seemed like a thoughtful reflection on AI and its impact on the human brain, was copied from a US-based CEO.
Vihan Pratap Singh, the founder and CEO of Blackrose, a quantitative trading firm based in Gurgaon, shared the post on LinkedIn. In it, he described a conversation with a Computer Science graduate from IIT Bombay. The graduate, according to Singh, struggled to find basic words while speaking.
“Like his brain was buffering,” Singh wrote.
When asked what was wrong, the IIT graduate allegedly 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.”
The post warned about the long-term effects of AI. Singh claimed that tools like ChatGPT are doing more than helping people work—they may be changing the way we think. “We’re running the first large-scale experiment on human cognition,” he said. “What happens when an entire generation outsources their thinking?”
But the internet soon found that these were not his words.
The entire post was copied, almost word for word, from Greg Isenberg, a Florida-based entrepreneur and CEO of Late Checkout. Isenberg had written the same reflection back in December 2024, but mentioned a Stanford graduate instead of an IIT graduate. Singh changed that detail but left the rest of the post the same.
The plagiarism was exposed by X user Shobhit Bakliwal. He posted screenshots of both versions side by side. “This guy straight up stole the post and added IIT-B CS grad,” Bakliwal wrote.
Social media users were quick to criticise Singh. One wrote, “There’s a reason he is the Founder and CEO of his one-person company.” Another said, “He could have at least asked ChatGPT to rewrite this text.”
As of now, Singh has not responded to the plagiarism claims.
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