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Humanity keeps running into copyright issues with every major leap in IT technology (photocopiers, tape cassettes, personal computers, internet, and now AI). I think it's about time for humanity to rethink their take on the unnatural restriction of information.

I personally hope that countries recognize copyright and patents for what they really are and abolish them. Countries that refuse to do so can play catch up.

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Since all kinds of companies are getting a lot of money from the generative AI business, I think they can handle being sued for plagiarism if thats the content they produce.

This is based on a flawed view of how we humans behave. Without incentive no effort. This is also the reason why socialism has and always will fail. People who put massive effort in creating original content need to be able to earn the rewards.

The premise, that forgoing copyright would necessitate the forgoing of incentives and rewards, is one entirely of your own assertion and was not implied in my above comment. I agree that your assertion is flawed.

There can be, and are, incentives and rewards associated with sharing information without flawed artificial constraints like copyright.

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