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Would your argument be the same if it was a human? If a person memorizes a book verbatim, however uses safety/common sense not the transcribe the book for others because it is a copyright infringement disallow him from using the information memorized whatsoever because he can duplicate it?


What if it was an alien, or a magical being?

There is no reason the same reasoning must apply for humans as it does for machines or code. Our laws already work this way.


I don't follow. Are you implying humans are not real, or can't memorize copyrighted material verbatim?


I’m saying that it doesn’t matter what humans do this machine isn’t a human.

There is no reason to believe that humans and machines should be the same under the law.

The clearest example of this is that in the US it’s already been decided that ai generated art can’t be copyrighted because it was made by a computer rather than a person. Same as for the monkey selfie.




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