> It’s like if I go to Golden Gate Park and pick one flower, I shouldn’t do that, but no one cares. But if I build a machine to automatically cut every flower in the park because I want to sell them, that’s different.

The problem here is, in your example the small scale example, and the large scale example are both unacceptable behavior.

Learning from others at a small scale is not only socially acceptable, but is the foundation of how advancement works.

So this concept of the issue of the scale being the issue isn't at its core the problem, its that something that that is desired behavior in a human, is not socially acceptable because of a machine is doing it.