These are two different modes being conflated. A person committing plagiarism is akin to a how a GPT creates a document. "Okay, this word... and then this word.

These are two different modes being conflated. A person committing plagiarism is akin to a how a GPT creates a document. "Okay, this word... and then this word... and then this word..." This is opposed to modeling a concept in your mind, and then applying language through denotation. This isn't unlike composing a request to be sent over a specific protocol. The data exists independently of the protocol and could even be fit to more protocols, with the right understanding of how to implement them. Sure, you have to read some docs, and maybe use a library somebody else wrote, but nobody in their right mind would call that plagiarism. This is more akin to how language works in the human brain, where each new language is like a different protocol.