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		jxf on Jan 25, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: I “wrote” a kid's book with ChatGPT and M... I think there are important differences between this situation and your chef/frozen food analogy that cause it to break down: * A digital image is permanent. A meal, by design, is consumed and has a very specific lifespan. * A digital image is trivial to duplicate and consume again. A meal can be very hard to duplicate (and may even require another chef, or food scientists). No two people can consume exactly the same meal. * A digital image is not required to survival. Regular intake of food and water is (at least for humans). and so on.

glofish on Jan 25, 2023 [–]

I think the whole food analogy is missing the main point we are not reusing someone else's food to create a new frozen food.

Frozen-ness is about mass production - but not about the origin of that food. It just conflates unrelated issues.

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