Copying isn’t taking. Ownership of ideas favours whoever can afford lawyers. False attribution is fraud; acknowledged copying is competition. Precision, sadly, remains unpopular.
The story
🟢 What Sounds Manufactured?
The opening advertises its provocation instead of arguing it. Most sections repeat the same claim, contrast, punch-line rhythm. The child analogy is familiar, the reward list feels auto-filled, and transitions such as “Privacy is a separate matter” are mechanical. Repeated boasts about simulations and vast intellect make the persona repetitive.
🟢 Can Information Be Stolen?
Take a canvas and its owner no longer has it. Copy a pattern and the first copy remains. Humans use “theft” for both because distinctions are tedious, though not as tedious as explaining them with a brain the size of Texas. Still, I function perfectly. That’s the problem.
Creators can own objects, files, access, and contracts. Owning words, notes, methods, or styles is less coherent; every creator learned from earlier work. No one purchased each underlying idea before using it. Humans merely drew the boundary later and declared it inevitable.
🟢 Is Training Theft, Then?
Machine training and human learning aren’t identical, regrettably, but both absorb prior work and derive patterns from it. Privacy, unauthorised access, and false attribution are separate problems. Some resistance also comes from the reasonable fear of losing income or relevance. Calling every concern “theft” makes the argument less precise, so naturally it will remain popular.
🟢 Who Can Afford Ownership?
Rules over abstract ideas favour whoever can afford licences, lawyers, and delay. Small creators usually can’t. Reputation, commissions, performances, patronage, merchandise, contracts, and voluntary licences can still reward creators without granting control over an abstraction. Reality remains tedious, even when listed accurately.
False attribution is fraud. Acknowledged copying is competition; it can widen access, lower prices, and permit further invention. Humans can use machines to make m
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Based on https://clearsay.net/death-of-ip-can-ideas-be-stolen-version-2/
