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I dunno, at launch if you asked ChatGPT to make up a new Sir Mix-A-Lot song about big butts, it’d write very familiar lyrics more-or-less verbatim…

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Lots of people would do the same.

I vaguely remember a short science fiction story where people got uploaded to the cloud. There were three options for your memories.

The expensive one you got to keep all your memories of Copyright music, video, books. The medium priced one it was replaced with public domain stuff. The cheap one it was all replaced with advertising.

The results don't exactly match your description, but a cloud-run self in which multiple plans are available and in which the implications of copyright enforcement and advertising-supported options figure prominently was depicted in the short video “Welcome to Life: the singularity, ruined by lawyers” on Tom Scott's channel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFe9wiDfb0E

Thanks, Pretty sure thats probably the one I was remembering (and confusing the plot elements a bit).

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