• KevonLooney
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    11 months ago

    It’s not illegal for a person to learn things online. That’s one of the original purposes of the “world wide web” when it was opened to universities.

    It is illegal to copy someone’s brand and use it to make money. These chat bots are literally charging people to take input like “write a story in this author’s style” and outputting a story that is a poor mimicry. The main problem is they are charging money based on someone else’s trademark. Not that they write a similar story.

    • uranibaba@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      This feels like Andy Warhol’s art combined with TPB’s court processing.

      Andy earned money buy making art using other’s art and TPB sold ads while telling you where you could aquire content illegaly, while never actually hosting any of the content.

      Where does the line go? If I write a book the is similar to someone else’s book, is that illegal? If I use a tool to help me write? Which tools are allowed and which are not?

      It is going to be interesting to see how this plays out.