Re: A bottomless pit of plagiarism

On 6/14/2025 8:28 AM, Paul S Person wrote:

On Fri, 13 Jun 2025 17:00:53 -0400, Cryptoengineer
<petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:
 

On 6/13/2025 11:24 AM, Paul S Person wrote:

On Thu, 12 Jun 2025 15:49:55 -0000 (UTC), Don <g@crcomp.net> wrote:
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"Disney and Universal sue AI firm Midjourney over images"
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<https://www.google.com/search?q=midjourney+"a+bottomless+pit+of+plagiarism">
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PKB??

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The link is to a Google search result. "PKB" does not occur on it, at
least not here.
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Perhaps it would help if you specified the actual article (there are
at least four, possibly more) in which "PKB" occurs.
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Most of what I am finding for "PKB" is from chemistry. I have doubts
about that being relevant.

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PKB ->  Pot. Kettle. Black.

 That at least makes sense. If Disney/Pixar is in the plagiarism
business, that is.
 Not that I am expressing an opinion about whether or not Midjourney's
AI is plagiaristic, BTW.

Disney has long been in the business of taking old classics and copyrighting them as their own.  Many of them not technically plagiarism, since the originals were never copyrighted.  Snow White and Cinderella, to name two off the top of my head.
Winny the Pooh, they bought the rights to, I don't know about Pinocchio or James and the Giant Peach, though since Dahl was still alive when they made JatGP, I assume there was some sort of negotiation.
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