AI can recreate copyrighted books almost word-for-word—generating more than 95% of a Harry Potter book on request. (See chart below.)

Let’s be brutally honest: these bots are plagiarism machines, and would get shut down immediately if intellectual property laws were enforced.

The fact that this hasn’t happened merely reflects the fact that technocrats have more political power than authors and other creators.

arxiv.org/pdf/2601.0267…