Human creators are regularly accused of plagiarism, and a common defense is to claim that one accidentally reproduced another work without realizing it. But tha

Human creators are regularly accused of plagiarism, and a common defense is to claim that one accidentally reproduced another work without realizing it. But that defense only works if the copying is very limited. If whole paragraphs are reproduced or the reproduction occurs multiple times, the human is usually considered a plagiarist. Should we judge AIs by the same criteria? If an AI is found to regurgitate some part of its training data on a semi-regular basis, should we consider it a plagiarism engine?