Yeah absolutely, acceptable in case of humans and not acceptable in case of GPT.
GPT is not human. It is employed by a human to get around having to benefit other humans with attention and money.
Meanwhile human world is structured around fate, happiness of humans -- such things guide our considerations as to what to consider legal and what not.
There are other differences that make it OK for humans and not GPT (like we can attribute and credit what we learned from, whose ideas we used in work and what inspired us) but they are less significant than above principle
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-- Totally me.