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		getabrainplz on Aug 9, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Fear of AI just killed a useful tool If I read the book, take notes about the number of times $x happened and later post them to my website, are you fine with that? if I automate that process with a script that uses regular expressions, are you fine with that? if I add a neural network to my script and it spits out the same numbers, are you still fine with that? hopefully you see the madness in your argument.

jprete on Aug 9, 2023 [–]

I’m thinking specifically of generative AI’s fair use claims. I thought the book site (and all of your extension examples) was clearly fair use.

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