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by 32bitkid 1461 days ago
If I pay for grammarly, and it plagiarizes an existing work but represents it as an entirely new, independent work and I am unaware of the existing work that is being stolen, who is doing the stealing?
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This makes more sense for text message auto complete: you just take the suggested next word after a one word start deed, it might reproduce a Wikipedia entry. But what did tub expect? The same would be true with grammarly if you somehow got it to produce a bunch of new text. You expected garbage, but somehow infringed on copyright instead. But I guess think the user deserves some responsibility in realizing their expected garbage output isn’t for some reason.
If you pay a shady character to get you a modern laptop for $100 you can't claim that you were unaware that it was most likely stolen and the fact that you paid for it something doesn't absolve you morally.
does shady guy have his name on the side of a building, and run ads: "buy my shady stuff" and then pay taxes and his earning? That kind of shady guy?
Sometimes. Like Amazon, widely known for their workers and 3rd party vendor exploitation practices.

You can no more claim ignorance of where the github copilot code comes from than where the Amazon's low, low prices come from.

Whether you care is totally on you regardless of whether you pay ir not. You pay for product or service not moral absolution.

Are thousands of amazon employees going to be in same docket with me?