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Patterns, Facts, and AI

Replying to this thread . I think if you scan through a hundred papers and find a pattern in those papers, and use that pattern to make something, you haven't copied anything. Harder to do: you can also scan through a hundred papers, find the one original thing, and use that to make something. Then the question of whether you've copied is a matter of degree. In neither case does it matter whether a machine or a human does this. What makes something ethical or not is the act, not the technology. Anyhow. I scan though a hundred papers (more or less) every day to produce my newsletter. I try to find the original and highlight that. And my own original work is based on patterns I see in the data. I passed over Doug's article because (in my view) it had been done before (not the least of all, by me, in 2019). There's no ethical issue or blame here; most of what is produced in the world (including most of what I produce) is not original. Again, it's not the tech. ...

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