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Brilliant Helen! You've expanded my thinking. I appreciate your reflections on creativity, copyright, and AI through the lens of Kant, Hegel, and Locke. It's refreshing to take a step back from all the current buzzy press on AI and take a moment to ask the philosophical questions.

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Oooh loving Led Zeppelin, listened while I read.

“Turns out, this animal-selfie-copyright question matters a great deal. A case even went up to an US Circuit Court – just one level below the Supreme Court.”

Damn, PETA doesn’t mess around lol

This whole essay is wild. PETA, philosophy, creativity, AI. You did an exceptional job making this entertaining and educational.

"AIs behave as if they have agency. Do they actually have agency?" 😵‍💫

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"All questions circle back to a who, because our philosophies have always centered on humans, and believed that humans are unique. But with AIs behaving as if they were human, our philosophies are being challenged. After all, what makes human unique?" -- You're going to make me sleep deprived thinking about this, Helen! This series is so packed with ideas and thoughts and things that I don't know that reading it is an unprecedented reflective and thought-provoking experience for me. I look forward to the continuation of this.

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