Do you think that if you write a book directly inspired by another you should be required to pay the author of the book that inspired you?

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overfeed 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

That's a false equivalence. Humans occasionally cause food poisoning at potlucks, and it's self-evident why we should hold McDonald's to a much higher standard due to the sheer scale of harm it can cause. A human, even when hopped up on stimulants, can't do a fraction of what a corporations with whole data centers can do.

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GaryBluto 6 hours ago | parent [-]

It is in no way a false equivalence. Are you saying that if you write a book directly inspired by another you shouldn't be required to pay the author of the book that inspired you, unless you become successful, then you should be held to "higher standards"?

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overfeed 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Biological humans are not, and should not be equivalent to corporations. There's a chasm in scale of execution, goals, and functional immortality.

Further case law established that I - a human - can create original work, if you are a non-human entity such as an LLM, or a monkey taking a picture, you cannot.

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GaryBluto 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Remind me again what beings operate corporations.

	▲	mystraline 9 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		A company is a ship of Theses. Someone can die, and theyre replaced within 3 days. A new hire takes their place within a month (or used to). And legally, the comapny's sole responsibility is "make money for shareholders". An analysis of 'what a company is', is fair to compare it to the most laser-focused sociopath. But your false point is trying to say 'Since humans run a company, its human ethics and just humans'. And what we have is demonstrably not human-like. The 2003 documentary film 'The Corporation' does a deep dive as why you are wrong, in regards to falsely equivocating humans to a corporation. The worst of the worst behaviors of sociopathic humans get selected more and more, all in the name of money. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6v8e7dUwq_Q

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AlecSchueler 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Are these hypothetical books being written by "predatory companies?"