As every college plagiarist worth his or her salt knows (by picking this knowledge up from somewhere else), nearly nothing is original or new, and certainly no information is anyone’s monopoly. Something that many Hindi film scriptwriters are familiar with. So, the question becomes of acknowledgement. Which is another way of stating the amount one fixes to a bill of information-sharing. While purists may argue that there is a price to be paid for quality legwork done to obtain information, the real world increasingly shows the world caring about who ‘told them so’ or what they are told. All that seemingly matters is they are told something. Which means NYT may believe only in news that is fit to print, but chatbots need not be so restricted. Since the public, dear reader, doesn’t want restrictions of quality or veracity either.
