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

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451 points croes | 1 comments | 12 May 25 09:49 UTC | HN request time: 0.202s | 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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glial ◴[12 May 25 13:28 UTC] No.43962665[source]▶
It reminds me of the old joke.

"To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research."

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1. slipnslider ◴[13 May 25 15:44 UTC] No.43974206[source]▶
Einstein once said "the key to genius is to hide your sources well"

And honestly there is truth to it. Some people (at work, in rea life, wherever) might come off very inteligent but the moment they say "oh I just read that relevant fact on reddit/twitter/news site 5 minutes ago" you realize they are just like you and repeating relevant information that was consumed recently.