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		lukasbm 4 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger sca... If i tell my friend a synopsis of a book, i am not stealing from the author, what is this take lmao

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NicuCalcea 4 days ago [–]

If you read a book and then retell it to your friend pretending you came up with it, it is plagiarism. If you write down the book almost word-for-word [0] and send it to your friend, it is stealing.

0: https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.02671

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