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Except its not designs being stolen but rather products. Also stealing designs is not allowed in modern times since you know we evolved.

• ben_w 3y ago
  First, LLMs and Diffusion models infer a design from a product or other permanent artefact. They're not designed to, nor good at, literal copying. Second, our species didn't evolve into being in 1787: """ The Calico Printers’ Act 1787[19] was the first statute to explicitly provide protection for designs, conferring rights enduring for 2 months upon: “Every person who shall invent, design and print or cause to be invented, designed and printed and become the proprietors of any new and original pattern or patterns for printing linens, cottons, calicos or muslins…” … [19] The full title of the Calico Printers’ Act 1787 was “An Act for encouragement of the Arts of Designing and Printing Linens, Cottons, Calicos and Muslins by vesting the properties thereof in the Designers, Printers and Proprietors for a limited time”. """ - https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a7d90b2e5274a6b89a50d21/ipresearch-designlaw-201207.pdf https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a7d90b2e5274...