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US Copyright Office found AI companies breach copyright. Its boss was fired

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451 points croes | 2 comments | 12 May 25 09:49 UTC | HN request time: 0.408s | source
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prvc ◴[12 May 25 12:28 UTC] No.43962193[source]▶
The released draft report seems merely to be a litany of copyright holder complaints repeated verbatim, with little depth of reasoning to support the conclusions it makes.
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bgwalter ◴[12 May 25 12:59 UTC] No.43962424[source]▶
The required reasoning is not very deep though: If an AI reads 100 scientific papers and churns out a new one, it is plagiarism.

If a savant has perfect recall, remembers text perfectly and rearranges that text to create a marginally new text, he'd be sued for breach of copyright.

Only large corporations get away with it.

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Maxatar ◴[12 May 25 13:43 UTC] No.43962820[source]▶
Plagiarism isn't illegal, has nothing to do with the law.
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1. shkkmo ◴[12 May 25 13:49 UTC] No.43962877[source]▶
Plagarism is often illegal. If you use plagarism to obtain a financial or other benefit, that can be fraud.
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2. jobigoud ◴[12 May 25 14:28 UTC] No.43963390[source]▶
That further drives the point that the issue is not what the AI is doing but what people using it are doing.