Download a book and you are a thief
replyDownload 1 million books and you are OpenAI
What? HN has always praised Library Genesis for example.
replyHunting an animal would be considered ok by most, but scaling it to the point of damage is not ok according to most.
replyIt is theft under common sense.
replyOnly in the sense that you reading a book from the library also constitutes theft of knowledge. Does it?
replyIf I stole someone's private research notes and republished them loosely in my own words, they'd correctly be pissed
replyThis was unpublished research that was stolen, and constitutes plagiarism and academic fraud by even the strictest definition
They are not “private research notes” if they are generated by an LLM.
reply>This was unpublished research that was stolen, and constitutes plagiarism and academic fraud by even the strictest definition
replyIt was not stolen, it was willingly given.
The terms of service does not dictate what constitutes plagiarism
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