{"id":70,"date":"2025-07-23T11:44:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T11:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/07\/23\/ai-intellectual-theft-and-lawsuits\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T11:44:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T11:44:13","slug":"ai-intellectual-theft-and-lawsuits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/07\/23\/ai-intellectual-theft-and-lawsuits\/","title":{"rendered":"AI, Intellectual Theft, and Lawsuits"},"content":{"rendered":"

A year or two ago I was bumping along at about one thousand page views per diem when I experienced an unusual uptick in traffic. Inspection of the MavPhil<\/em> traffic log suggested that my content was being stolen. But I didn't much care, and I still don't much care inasmuch as my content has very little commercial value, and in any case, I'm a "made man" with more than enough loot to see me through my remaining sublunary travels and travails. My thinking and writing is a labor love and not a money-making enterprise. Add to that the fact that I'm an Enough is Enough<\/em> kind of guy who has no interest in piling up the lean green far in excess of what is needed.  And maybe I'm steering Group Mind or Objektiver Geist<\/em> in a wholesome direction. I'm doing my bit, like a good Boomer, to make this world a better place. <\/span><\/p>\n

But what if you make your living by scribbling? What if you have a 'high maintenance' wife, children, a hefty mortgage and you live in a high-tax lefty locale? Interesting questions here.  More grist for the mill.<\/span><\/p>\n

And so I tip my  hat to Ingvarius Maximus the Alhambran for sending us to  this<\/a> Washington (Com)Post<\/em> article actually worth reading. Access is free. (What fool pays for access to such a crappy publication?)<\/span><\/p>\n

One more thing. When lawyers are replaced by AI systems will AI systems be suing AI systems over intellectual property theft? <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A year or two ago I was bumping along at about one thousand page views per diem when I experienced an unusual uptick in traffic. Inspection of the MavPhil traffic log suggested that my content was being stolen. But I didn't much care, and I still don't much care inasmuch as my content has very … Continue reading “AI, Intellectual Theft, and Lawsuits”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,92,99],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","category-autobiographical","category-law-philosophy-of"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}