Should AI splooge be treated the same as copyrighted materials on the Dope?

This entire message board is human splooge.

This message board protects direct copying of someone else’s content. You can paste a little bit (fair use with attribution) but that’s it.

AI is doing the same thing. It hoovers up content, same as you would reading a book or article, and then outputs some synthesis of that.

This is EXACTLY what every person on the SDMB has ever done. Exactly what every student in school writing a paper on a topic has done for ages. Why is AI different? Because it can consume a library of books in a few seconds that is now bad? That’s just more efficient. Some people read faster than others. Are they more bad than the slow readers? Where do you draw a line?

If you catch someone copy/pasting someone else’s content let us/the world know.