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AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale

Hacker News · May 21, 2026, 1:38 PM

Key takeaways

  • AI takes in all the input, whether the original authors have consented or not, and do some "learning", and then the AI companies sell these learned result to humans, without compensating the original authors.
  • Worse, the customer of these AI companies (AI tools bro) sell the prompted / processed result to other customers, profitting off things AI has copied from all over the internet.
  • Is this what the pinnacle of human is?

AI takes in all the input, whether the original authors have consented or not, and do some "learning", and then the AI companies sell these learned result to humans, without compensating the original authors.

Worse, the customer of these AI companies (AI tools bro) sell the prompted / processed result to other customers, profitting off things AI has copied from all over the internet.

Is this what the pinnacle of human is? Lazy and greedy?

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