I do agree with them that stealing may not be the right word, isn’t plagiarism more accurate? But plagiarism is generally considered theft so it probably doesn’t matter. I just found it really interesting that I personally haven’t really given much thought to the semantics of theft when no physical object is involved even though it’s been discussed for like centuries atp
Plagiarism isn’t correct either. For something to be plagiarism it needs to be both copied exactly as well as intentionally lying about the authorship (i.e. you claim you wrote something that you didn’t).
The output of Large Language Models similar in some ways to plagiarism—when someone claims they wrote something that was actually just the output of an LLM. However, that really isn’t the same thing because an LLM isn’t a legal entity that’s capable of owning anything.
LLMs are also just a tool. An advanced tool that can generate all sorts of texts and software but they still require a human to tell them what to do.
If some human asks ChatGPT to write something in the style of Stephen King what even is that? That’s not against the law (you can’t copyright a writing style). It’s basically, “not a thing.” Is that even a bad thing? I honestly don’t think so because of I put myself in those same shoes: “write a comment in the style of Riskable” all I can do is 🤷. It’s of no consequence.
I’d also argue that it’s of no consequence to authors either. What impact does it have on them? None. It doesn’t effect their book/whatever sales. It doesn’t hurt the market for their works—if anything, it makes the market for their works greater because their works won’t be total shit like the output of some LLM (LOL).
There might be as many shit takes in this post as there are em dashes. I mean, wow.
Whenever someone bitches about em dashes I assume they haven’t read books.
I do agree with them that stealing may not be the right word, isn’t plagiarism more accurate? But plagiarism is generally considered theft so it probably doesn’t matter. I just found it really interesting that I personally haven’t really given much thought to the semantics of theft when no physical object is involved even though it’s been discussed for like centuries atp
Plagiarism isn’t correct either. For something to be plagiarism it needs to be both copied exactly as well as intentionally lying about the authorship (i.e. you claim you wrote something that you didn’t).
The output of Large Language Models similar in some ways to plagiarism—when someone claims they wrote something that was actually just the output of an LLM. However, that really isn’t the same thing because an LLM isn’t a legal entity that’s capable of owning anything.
LLMs are also just a tool. An advanced tool that can generate all sorts of texts and software but they still require a human to tell them what to do.
If some human asks ChatGPT to write something in the style of Stephen King what even is that? That’s not against the law (you can’t copyright a writing style). It’s basically, “not a thing.” Is that even a bad thing? I honestly don’t think so because of I put myself in those same shoes: “write a comment in the style of Riskable” all I can do is 🤷. It’s of no consequence.
I’d also argue that it’s of no consequence to authors either. What impact does it have on them? None. It doesn’t effect their book/whatever sales. It doesn’t hurt the market for their works—if anything, it makes the market for their works greater because their works won’t be total shit like the output of some LLM (LOL).
I find it telling that the best rebuttal anyone can come up with to my comment is to say it’s a “shit take.”
I mean, wow.