When will non-creative folks realize that there is a difference between
8 words or concepts copied in series (derivative inspiration)
and
45 words or concepts copied in series (plagiarism)?
People hold about 8 sequential concepts in their working memory and can easily copy such a sequence without having the source material in front of them. If they have copied more than 14 sequential concepts, they are entering the legal grey area because they are clearly directly relying on having the source text sitting in front of them.
Kids learn in school that if you need to copy from a text that is sitting in front of you as you type, you need to cite it. Otherwise they are plagiarizing. Grown ups should be held to a similar standard and remember the value of human creativity that is unaugmented by copy and paste computing or AI spun word hash.
Burying the lede was clearly the right choice in this case. There is a real mystery. It is not the one originally proposed, but one a level deeper, that would not be so interesting without the solution to the first.
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[ 0.19 ms ] story [ 15.1 ms ] threadPeople hold about 8 sequential concepts in their working memory and can easily copy such a sequence without having the source material in front of them. If they have copied more than 14 sequential concepts, they are entering the legal grey area because they are clearly directly relying on having the source text sitting in front of them.
Kids learn in school that if you need to copy from a text that is sitting in front of you as you type, you need to cite it. Otherwise they are plagiarizing. Grown ups should be held to a similar standard and remember the value of human creativity that is unaugmented by copy and paste computing or AI spun word hash.
Burying the lede was clearly the right choice in this case. There is a real mystery. It is not the one originally proposed, but one a level deeper, that would not be so interesting without the solution to the first.