@mjg59 it sounds unconvincing to me. the plagiarism thing has to do with sustainability, not just aesthetics. software errors tend to be chaotic and compounding and thus you’d need strong edges to the sandbox where the agents were allowed to play, which we don’t have. and the “inherent”-ness is a red herring. it doesn’t matter if there’s a *pretend* version of this tech that is ethical, the real-life version we have has the problems it has, and I haven’t heard any plausible way to separate them