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> AI is immensely useful

Right up until you need to do something you can't plagiarize

> if applied correctly will help humanity.

It isn't and won't be. Its entire purpose is to plagiarize artists, writers, and programmers, and to slowly whittle away those professions as viable. When there are no engineers left, we'll go back to sticks and stones I guess.

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AI output is obviously transformative and would be protected by fair use.

The argument is about whether the training data was stolen. (which it was)




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