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by FromTheFirstIn 28 days ago
It’s a bit like saying copy and paste must be intelligent because its output is indistinguishable from intelligent output. Reproduction of intelligence has never been equivalent to intelligence- that’s why we look down on copying, plagiarism or derivative work.
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Well if it was the data that was copied, nobody would be using LLMs. The data-generating process is the thing that would be copied.

That's why we do appreciate the nth artist making classical or techno music.