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Who did the work?
If an AI learned your solution from you and handed it to a stranger, whose work is it?
One group spends months on a problem with an AI. The next version of the model hands a near-identical method to people who never hear of them.
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You showed a colleague the shortcut that saves you an hour a week. A year later the whole office uses it, and the new hires think it came with the software. You don't really mind. Then, at odd moments, you do.
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