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Is it really stealing if you're stealing their style?

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Written by John Gruber Published on Sep 16, 2024 Last Updated on Sep 23, 2024

Okay, so it may be unethical, I don't know. But sometimes I read content and I enjoy it. It's informative, longer than most of the reading I do but I stick it out. Then at the end of the article, I think: Why did I read all of that? What made that article more captivating than something I wrote? So I ask Copilot.

Can you read this article and give me a summary? Wow. I just read a few thousand words to learn to "write good content and get more reach." Why the heck did I just read all of that? So I ask Copilot: What’s the style of the article?

Wow, there's a prompt right there but let's ask Copilot to turn it into a prompt. Can you turn that into a prompt for Copilot?

Notice how I always ask Copilot to do things for "Copilot". Like it's a different person. I'm not convinced AI is self-aware.

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