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Are you trying to start a conversation that will revolve looking up dictionary definitions?


Hmm. I don't think so. Whether humans are machines or not is really a matter of faith, not dictionary definitions, I would think.

It was a pithy one-liner about categories in response to a pithy one-liner about categories.

But I'd say the underlying question I'm trying to ask is philosophical: what property do humans have and machines lack that makes the first's learning from copyrighted works acceptable, and the second's unacceptable? (eastof suggested a property below).




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