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   PaulGoodman67posted 5 days ago

   Copyright only applies if the wording of the "derivative" article is the same or very similar. If something is rewritten with enough word changes, it doesn't usually breach copyright laws (I'm talking specifically about text).
   
   Ironically, ChatGPT itself is capable of taking any article and rewriting it so that it can be published elsewhere, I believe.
   
   The URL theft thing is somewhat naughty, though not illegal or a breach of contract. It's against the spirit of the site, I'd say, but that doesn't count for much. I think a lot of hubbers probably underestimated how few rights they had writing here.
   
   I always understood I was selling my soul. But I was okay with it, given the rewards I was getting.
   
   The only way to really protect your work in the AI world is to not publish it in the public domain (according to the head of Google), which seems to defy the objective of publishing for most people.
   
   The only way to own things like the URLs is generally to have your own website.

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      SerenityHaloposted 2 days agoin reply to this

      Was this a response to a particular person or the whole thread? Sorry, this thread has gotten so long that it looks funky on my phone.
      
      I believe there was something passed that anything written with AI actually can’t have a copyright.
      
      I think we’re in the Wild West at the moment and laws around this stuff haven’t caught up or are developing. How long that will take and what they will mean 1 year, 5 years, 10 years, or 30 years out, I have no idea as it’s murky.
      
      Things change, but it doesn’t mean entire industries collapse. Traditional publishers are still around and highly sought after. Music formats change, but music is still a giant industry. I was hoping AI would be more like Tomagachis. Huge fade, disappeared after people got bored of it. I think it might bust similar to the dot.com craze now some twenty years back.
      
      Big tech is pushing AI hard, even though it drains natural resources and the like. A lot of people are upset by that. We’re wasting water on AI. They want people to engage with it because it’s a product and they make money off it. Not only do they want you to use it, they want you to be addicted to it.
      
      There are a lot of people who don’t like AI writing or AI anything, so it’s possible that the use of it in certain arenas will be a kiss of death.
      
      As for what’s happening here, I think they’re likely to mine what they want from HubPages and then will set it out to pasture. Seeing as how there is a massive amount of articles, it could take time before the “setting out to pasture” phase begins. Or it could be tomorrow.

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         Kenna McHughposted 2 days agoin reply to this

         AI is definitely being pushed because those pushing want to make money. It will die like a bullet hitting water. As an artist, I would love to have AI do my laundry, clean my house, organize my closets, pull my weeds, mow my lawn, and other incidentals. So I can spend time creating—that's AI worth investing time and money in.

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            SerenityHaloposted 2 days agoin reply to this

            Yes, tech for doing chores is what we actually want. I think AI for creativity could get tossed aside because it lowers the value of products. People don’t like automated projects that haven’t been fact checked, and companies don’t like lawsuits because AI made promises or offers that weren’t real.
            
            I don’t let my kid watch AI YouTube cartoons with letters that don’t exist out of AI slop. He watches Sesame Street and Bluey. I don’t go through the AI created things for myself either. It just looks like like a lot of videos with less than 100 views.
            
            At the very least, I could see AI like fast food. It’s there, but it hasn’t replaced restaurants entirely. And the quality of AI is about on par with fast food.

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               Kenna McHughposted 2 days agoin reply to this

               Exactly. Those who swear that it will improve, blah, blah, blah, are making false promises.

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   PaulGoodman67posted 2 days ago

   AI will continue to increase its share of the search traffic. That’s what’s relevant to HP writers.
   
   There’s no reason I can see why that will stop anytime soon.

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      Miebakagh57posted 2 days agoin reply to this

      Writers everywhere are gearing to AI to write stuffs.
      
      I've not tried a bit yet.
      
      Using CHAT GPT is not brainny. In any school or colleges nowadays, AI is the thing.
      
      So the future is AI.
      
      That is what TAG is up to, but will not let us writer here produce materials in AI formats.

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