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Company Reminder for Everyone to Talk Nicely About the Giant Plagiarism Machine

82 points by zdw 1y ago

readthenotes1 1y ago
Disappointed. I thought this was going to be about Harvard.
minimaxir 1y ago
[edit: retracted kneejerk take]
- JonChesterfield 1y ago
  Linkedin has stuff like this on it and I'm pretty sure it's sincere. Also Google wouldn't give me an antonym for "satire", only the output of a LLM which thinks synonym is the same thing as antonym.
  - leephillips 1y ago
    Nouns do not have antonyms. Edit: I should have said not all nouns have antonyms.
    - monster_truck 1y ago
      What? Yes they do. ridge/groove, heaven/hell, war/peace, north/south, predator/prey etc etc
    - Centigonal 1y ago
      Not true. Some concrete nouns don't have antonyms, but "good," "black," "heat," "invisibility," and many more abstract nouns have clear antonyms.
  - gotoeleven 1y ago
    sincerence ? earnestence? Of course using those words will make whatever you're writing sound like satire.
Pulcinella 1y ago
Even "plagiarism" is putting way to positive a spin on it. "Rampant copyright infringement" is more accurate. I'm sure we all have our own feelings about IP law, but remember what happens to regular people who try stuff like this. I don't think the RIAA, Disney, or Nintendo (or the government) are going to be pleased to hear "it's not piracy! It's a transformative experience protected by fair use!"
- steveBK123 1y ago
  Millenials might be the generation that both got threatened with jail for music copyright infringement violations as youth AND gets to have their job threatened by automated mass corporate copyright infringement in adulthood!
  - hnthrow90348765 1y ago
    "Haha, yeah, those scrappy Millennials - who knows where their breaking point is but I'm sure there's a fintech app for making that bet"
  - svaha1728 1y ago
    We wanted Aaron Swartz and we got Sam Altman.
    - azemetre 1y ago
      Truly the darkest timeline.
- rrauenza 1y ago
  I had this argument presented to me and I wasn't sure what to do with it. > Humans are allowed to "absorb" art around them into their brains and generate derivative art. People may copy Miyazaki's style... why shouldn't an AI farm be allowed to? Let's put aside for a moment that AI may have "consumed" some art without a license (e.g., "google books" - did google purchase every book?).
  - 1y ago
rrauenza 1y ago
How could the author not have called it the Giant Plagiarism Tool or Giant Plagiarism Technology ...
- nh23423fefe 1y ago
  People who live in the past use bad metaphors like this.
- nashashmi 1y ago
  Might be a trademark problem?
fblp 1y ago
I wish this wasn't flagged, I find some of these satirical pieces on hn most thought provoking.
codr7 1y ago
I can see it's not being well received by the AI apologizing squad. Let's just flag anything that gets in the way of profit and peace of mind. Truth will find you.
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82 points by zdw 1y ago

readthenotes1 1y ago

Disappointed. I thought this was going to be about Harvard.

minimaxir 1y ago

[edit: retracted kneejerk take]

JonChesterfield 1y ago
Linkedin has stuff like this on it and I'm pretty sure it's sincere. Also Google wouldn't give me an antonym for "satire", only the output of a LLM which thinks synonym is the same thing as antonym.
- leephillips 1y ago
  Nouns do not have antonyms. Edit: I should have said not all nouns have antonyms.
  - monster_truck 1y ago
    What? Yes they do. ridge/groove, heaven/hell, war/peace, north/south, predator/prey etc etc
  - Centigonal 1y ago
    Not true. Some concrete nouns don't have antonyms, but "good," "black," "heat," "invisibility," and many more abstract nouns have clear antonyms.
- gotoeleven 1y ago
  sincerence ? earnestence? Of course using those words will make whatever you're writing sound like satire.

Pulcinella 1y ago

Even "plagiarism" is putting way to positive a spin on it. "Rampant copyright infringement" is more accurate. I'm sure we all have our own feelings about IP law, but remember what happens to regular people who try stuff like this. I don't think the RIAA, Disney, or Nintendo (or the government) are going to be pleased to hear "it's not piracy! It's a transformative experience protected by fair use!"

steveBK123 1y ago
Millenials might be the generation that both got threatened with jail for music copyright infringement violations as youth AND gets to have their job threatened by automated mass corporate copyright infringement in adulthood!
- hnthrow90348765 1y ago
  "Haha, yeah, those scrappy Millennials - who knows where their breaking point is but I'm sure there's a fintech app for making that bet"
- svaha1728 1y ago
  We wanted Aaron Swartz and we got Sam Altman.
  - azemetre 1y ago
    Truly the darkest timeline.
rrauenza 1y ago
I had this argument presented to me and I wasn't sure what to do with it. > Humans are allowed to "absorb" art around them into their brains and generate derivative art. People may copy Miyazaki's style... why shouldn't an AI farm be allowed to? Let's put aside for a moment that AI may have "consumed" some art without a license (e.g., "google books" - did google purchase every book?).
- 1y ago

rrauenza 1y ago

How could the author not have called it the Giant Plagiarism Tool or Giant Plagiarism Technology ...

nh23423fefe 1y ago
People who live in the past use bad metaphors like this.
nashashmi 1y ago
Might be a trademark problem?

fblp 1y ago

I wish this wasn't flagged, I find some of these satirical pieces on hn most thought provoking.

codr7 1y ago

I can see it's not being well received by the AI apologizing squad. Let's just flag anything that gets in the way of profit and peace of mind. Truth will find you.

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