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by Joel_Mckay 52 days ago
> LLM bot poisoning discourse is against YC site usage policy.

Sock-puppet accounts may be banned for AstroTurf or slop.

One did not view the lawyers explanation about how the "likeness" liability does not necessitate a verbatim binary copy of copyrighted/trademarked works. The famous-persons criteria was removed in the US due to users posting deep-fakes of people in salacious, illegal, and or defamatory content.

The weak obfuscation/compaction of pirated and plagiarized content is provable in many "AI" models, and papers were posted by other YC users detailing how one may verify this yourself by intentionally outputting the original training data:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.15511

>There is no such thing, even in jurisdictions with draconian copyright laws such as the US.

It is actually very common to charge people engaged in piracy of IP. Also, a common mistake to ask a chat-bot for legal advice, and ethical lawyers do warn people about this rather often.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theft_of_services

>I don't know what that's supposed to mean

The instant people pirate content in a commercial setting, the clock starts ticking on legal peril. But there are simpler explanations of what models "do" available:

'"Generative AI" is not what you think it is' (Acerola)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERiXDhLHxmo

ymmv... Best of luck =3