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Unfortunately, the human brain is basically "AI", except without the "A" part (supposedly). What are they going to do next? Ban humans from reading their books because a human might derive an idea from the book?
It's going to be exceptionally difficult to prove an idea came from an individual book. Except for the obvious cases of direct quoting, plagiarism, etc. The entire concept of "genres" ... books grouped together based on similar themes/story lines ... are they going to consider that intellectual theft now? The person who wrote the very first "zombie" book would be very rich by now. It's an artificially constructed character that most likely did not pop up spontaneously in multiple different writers heads.
This course of action by Penguin Random House is doomed to fail. It it doesn't, progression of knowledge is doomed to fail. I can't think of anything in our current world that is not built upon something previous. There has to be something new, somewhere, but nothing comes directly to mind. The vast majority of everything is an improvement/variation/step_forward from something that has come before. Even patents that are issued for "new ideas", I can't think of any totally "new ideas" there either. Just a twist of some old idea.
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