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Harper’s Magazine Publisher Says OpenAI Is Stealing From Writers – The Fifth Column
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11:21Now PlayingHarper’s publisher Rick MacArthur makes the case for print, explains why authors are suing OpenAI and argues that AI is plagiarism, even if truly original writers have nothing to fear.
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Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster, Michael Moynihan, and Matt Welch, The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle, the people who make it, and occasionally themselves.
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