Who’s talking about copies? We’re talking about an inscrutable network that tried to guess the next letter when shown part of a book. When it was right, weird math shit happened through umpteen layers of random numbers, and a zillion guesses later, it’ll churn out new books. Not good ones. Not sensible ones. But a lot more than the ctrl+c / ctrl+v accusations.

We already had the technology to copy text on a computer. In fact you can find any book ever published, for free, sometimes by accident. Yet the industry wasn’t strangled by piracy. That’s never how it works. Books were written for thousands of years before copyright existed. You’re on a website rooted in open-source ethos, demonstrating that artificial control and even monetary incentive are not strictly necessary.