alt Hacker NewsWhy is plagiarism an issue? In school it's an issue due to the effect that students won't learn well if they just copy everything, but outside of school and especially for personal use, why should I care if I "plagiarize" or not (and arguably AI doesn't even plagiarize as it's not a 1 to 1 copy paste of the code when making a new project)? The concept of plagiarism is as much a fiction as "intellectual" property. The only sort of property that actually exists is real and tangible.
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> Why is plagiarism an issue?
For starters, because of the western values of giving credit.
We have diseases named after people, never mind inventions and ideas.
Plagiarism is kick-out-of-school grade academic misconduct, whereby you are pretending that someone's work (and the ability it implies) is your own.
> The only sort of property that actually exists is real and tangible.
Remember, I'm talking about works that are free to redistribute, use and even modify. Or in other cases, that the users to whom a compiled work is distributed have access to the buildable source code.
The authors put their names on it, and terms which says that their notices are to be preserved when copies are made.
This isn't good enough for the Altmans and Amodeis of the world.
> it's an issue due to the effect that students won't learn well if they just copy everything
... and fraudulently obtain professional licensing, and use that to cause harm: medical malpractice, unsafe engineering.
It is fraud.
For morons who have never created anything and just steal theft is not an issue. Of course.
Creators who are ripped off care. IP is more logical that land ownership, since new things have been created whereas no one created the land. Land is just stolen and defended.