Disallow low-quality AI generated websites

[Buzz]

Hi all

I'd like to bring to your attention the sudden and disappointing rise in AI-generated websites in the website resource section on BuiltByBit.

Over the past 7 days, I've been the victim of two different people using AI to almost 1:1 copy my website resources, where they've shown screenshots of my websites to an AI, changed them up a bit, then just thrown them out onto BBB to undercut me on prices.

The first resource was Catalyst:
My website vs his website
My website vs his website (didn't even change the text from Vouchley & Converting.to which I both made)
some other smaller copies too
- Him admitting to blindly using v0 and Bolt

The other recent resource (the worst) has been Phantom

• 1:1 duplicate (including text) of my home page & navbar layout
• 1:1 copy of the text on the integration page: Mine vs his
• 1:1 API response to the letter: Mine vs his
• Admitting his design is a copy and saying he will redesign it
• This guy actually admitted using AI to generate his whole resource description too, which was completely inaccurate based on the resource

Both of these users admitted to copying me (or using my resources as "inspo"). Both of these resources undercut me, both copying my resources with AI, then spitting it out as AI slop on BuiltByBit with broken demos (literally half the stuff on the demo above didn't work), probably no will to offer support and a general non-creative attitude.

Something seriously needs to be done about non-developers or low experience developers vomiting out AI slop on the website category.

It's completely diluting the quality of the resources made on BBB, because these people would have zero idea what to do if somebody asked for help, not to mention they're using other (more experienced) developers' resources as straight up copies, meaning I will lose sales because of these people copying my resources.

There needs to be a rule change overall in every resource category, saying that you can't use AI to fully generate resources, especially if they're blatant copies. It's allowing people to generate 10 shitty quality websites at a time, publish them on BBB, and dilute the whole category.

I should NOT need to file a DMCA every single time a resource like this appears. There needs to be a policy change where websites need to have some degree of creativity or uniqueness in order to be published, instead of allowing low quality products by inexperienced developers that are copies from more reputable creators.

 

[PepijnWeijers]

I 100% agree

 

[Buzz]

There are several statements being made there that don't reflect the full truth, so I'm going to address them with direct quotes from our DM conversation for clarity.

Claim 1: "Admitted his design is a copy and saying he will redesign it"

In our messages, I never admitted to copying the design. I stated I took inspiration and offered to redesign elements to address concerns. That is not the same as admitting to copying. The quote in the original post is taken out of context.
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Claim 2: "1:1 API response to the letter".

API response formats are often similar across platforms. That does not mean code or data was copied.

Claim 3: "1:1 duplicate (including text) of my home page & navbar layout"

The use of charts, metric labels like "Total Licensed", and similar UI patterns are common in web apps. These are not unique, copyrightable elements owned by any single creator.

Claim 4: "1:1 copy of the text on the integration page"

The only similarity is the opening phrase "We've made it dead simple to integrate..." which is generic marketing line used widely in tech documentation and tutorials. The rest of the text is different:

His: Refers to integration Phantom and fetching a LICENSE_KEY from an environment variable.
Mine: Refers to integration license validation, using a Supabase anon key, and sending the license key plus IP address in the request body.

A similar introductory sentence does not make the content a 1:1 copy.

I respect other developers' work. I took inspiration from common design approaches, but did not copy code or directly his site. I also offered to make changes immediately when the issue was raised since he was frustrated and I was willing to work with him.

This isn't really the thread to engage in personal arguments. Nonetheless, your argument above doesn't help your situation at all. You still copied/took "inspo" from my work and admitted to it. Saying it's just a "coincidence" that things are the same because it's "standard in the industry" doesn't take away the fact that there are things that are literally 1:1 which are impossible to occur by pure chance.

• What are the chances a full sentence has been copied exactly 1:1 in the exact same type of software, in the excact same context, in the exact same page.
• The same thing can be said for every other thing you copied

The pure fact you've since changed the text in the integration page kind of proves you know it wasn't by chance lol

I appreciate the fact you have now chaned the whole design of your software to not copy mine, however the issue I have spoken above in the OP still stands as an issue caused by people like you.

Feel free to DM me on-site if you want to continue this.

 

[Vaspei]

As a client, it's extremely disappointing when I purchase a website and later find out it was made with AI. I don't code, I could use AI to make my own website for free if I wanted to. But no, I wanted something not AI generated, hence why I was willing to pay some money for it only to later find out it was made with AI..

Post automatically merged: Aug 6, 2025

If I recall, isn't there a rule on here against selling AI generated art/graphics? I'm surprised something like this doesn't exist already for code related resources.

 

[Buzz]

Buzz your whole website text is clearly ai and you clearly did not write this yourself

Text written by AI is different, but you knew that.

Wait, didn't you admit to using AI for a client's website and is the reason you're now banned from Rollerite service team?

Thread post: https://builtbybit.com/threads/-rollerite-looking-for-website-developers-and-designers-.725799/#post-5050782

Oh wait, your whole post in that thread was made with AI! How ironic.

Proof: em dashes present everywhere, robot-like text

 

[Buzz]

I got proof from you that you sent me a message saying you use AI as well for your websites as well to broski. don't start slandering me.

Would love to see this!

 

[Vaspei]

I got proof from you that you sent me a message saying you use AI as well for your websites as well to broski. don't start slandering me. i also see you got ur pal dan to back up w this thread

What's hilarious is this is so far from true. Buzz and I can agree that we don't see eye to eye on many things, but can definitely agree on this.