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		visarga on March 30, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google denies training Bard on ChatGPT chats from ... You can't own ideas, they got their own life-cycle.

whimsicalism on March 30, 2023 [–]

Right, but I do think you can "own" (by which I mean our societally-mediated legal definition of ownership in the anglosphere) specific sequences of text or at least the right to copy them?

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