tl;dr: A San Francisco marketing agency called Qontour built an unauthorized website republishing the entire text of John Koenig's book "The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows," replacing his original illustrations with DALL-E images and adding a GPT-4 word generator, all monetized with their own Amazon affiliate code. The bootleg site now outranks Koenig's official site in Google, ChatGPT, and Gemini, which incorrectly attribute it to him—and Simon & Schuster's DMCA takedowns have had no effect. The author frames this as an egregious example of a broader trend of AI-driven plagiarism displacing original creators.