Perspective.

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Is Copyright Law the New Turing Test?

In December 2023, the New York Times Company filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft for the "defendants' unlawful use of The Time's work to create artificial intelligence products..." [8]. While this lawsuit alone should interest the Computers and Society community, it struck me that its eventual judgment might serve as an interesting exhibit as to whether computers are creative in their intelligent thinking?1 This Parting Opinion focuses on this question. As usual, I'll present some background context to set the stage, before diving into the primary question at hand. As a bit of nostalgia, let's begin with the early days of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and quickly move to the present.