[8note]

In general tech has sat in the opposite paradigm: identify when doing something at a small scale is bad, but at a large scale is not

unauthorized plagiarism on the individual level is bad, at the medium scale is ick, but at the ultragigantic scale is meh.

laundering through an llm takes away the real moral ick from the plagiarism - the lying and building of ego by the person reboxing somebody else's ideas and work.

[wffurr]

>> the lying and building of ego by the person reboxing somebody else's ideas and work.

Instead the bot lies to people who use its output to boost their ego. Not sure it's really changing the moral calculus here.