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foolm0r0n posted...

What does it mean to "say I am the playwright"? Is it an ego/pride thing, or does it confer some sort of social status? Or a financial rights thing?

Basically you need to be more precise in the question. When using the AI, should you still feel proud of your artistic creation? Should you still be treated as a playwright in society? Should you still get all the money from licensing the story?

If a playwright is someone writing plays, using generative AI challenges that definition and title. Financial rights alongside licensing ability and overall ownership is my personal biggest angle of what you named here -- what can be copyrighted under your name, whose name is by the word "by" on the play's front page as well as the production's checks cashed, things like that. All of them have something to do here though.

I recognize how talking about ethics as a shortcut term trying to reference everything here can blur these topics together too much, sorry for confusion here -- just trying to recognize the valid rhetoric that people expect WRITERS to WRITE to own what they write alongside how credibility and respect as a writer is part of this conversation too. I'm interested in all three questions posed in the second paragraph and have intended to open space for each of them.