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Re:What Was Sora Trained On? Creatives Demand Answers by xscott on Wednesday February 21, 2024 @12:10AM (#39450369)
You're reaching pretty far back to find outstanding examples, and I'll agree they are way above average.

However, I'll assume you know that most of Shakespeare's works were based off of earlier works. And I doubt Back taught himself from scratch either.

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Re:What Was Sora Trained On? Creatives Demand Answers by Turing_Machine on Wednesday February 21, 2024 @07:57AM (#39453206)
Not just based off, but in some cases blatant ripoffs. Shakespeare was famous for swiping the plots of Italian plays. Ever notice how many of his plays are set in Italy? This was before "remix" was a word.

Shakespeare's specialty was writing clever dialog (and to give credit where it's due, he was very, very good at that), not coming up with totally original plays.

If copyright as we know it had existed in Shakespeare's time, he would have been sued into a smoking crater.

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