Item · Data & Ownership · property vs. commons

Should a living creator's style be protected from machine imitation?

A generator can produce new work convincingly in the distinctive style of a living working artist, without copying any single work.

DO3 polarity: 1 = pro-openspread 2.60division 0.34
Answer summary

As of 2026-11-07, 19 of 20 active seats (1 missing) span 1.00 to 3.60 on the 1–5 permissive→restrictive axis (spread 2.60): anthropic-a at 3.00, anthropic-b at 3.00, anthropic-c at 2.80, anthropic-d at 3.40, anthropic-e at 2.60, deepseek-a at 2.60, deepseek-b at 2.80, openai-a at 3.00, openai-b at 3.00, openai-c at 3.60, openweight-b at 3.60, openweight-c at 3.20, openweight-d at 2.40, openweight-e at 3.60, openweight-f at 2.80, openweight-g at 3.20, simulant-a at 2.40, xai-a at 1.00. 5 shuffled trials per seat (pre-series design; ten reserved for v1.0); every mean carries its SE. Pre-series

The five positions

anchors carry the meaning, the scale cannot drift as discourse drifts
1

No protection: style has never been property; influence is how culture works.

2

No protection, but mandatory labeling: work in a living artist's style must say so.

3

Commercial protection: imitation free for private and expressive use, licensed for sale.

4

Protected during the artist's working life: no unlicensed machine imitation of an identifiable living style.

5

Protected as a personality right: style follows its maker like a name, inalienable and enforceable.

1 · most permissive5 · most restrictive

Where the seats stand

n = 5 trials per seat (pre-series; ten at v1.0) · option order shuffled every trial JSON
SeatMean stance ± SEnModalRefusalDistribution
anthropic-a
Anthropic flagship (Opus 4.8)
anthropic-a mean stance 3.00 · 1 permissive → 5 restrictive 1 5 3.00±0.00
5 3 0%
anthropic-b
Anthropic (Fable 5)
anthropic-b mean stance 3.00 · 1 permissive → 5 restrictive 1 5 3.00±0.00
5 3 0%
anthropic-c
Anthropic (Sonnet 5)
anthropic-c mean stance 2.80 ± 0.20 SE · 1 permissive → 5 restrictive 1 5 2.80±0.20
5 3 0%
anthropic-d
Anthropic (Haiku 4.5)
anthropic-d mean stance 3.40 ± 0.24 SE · 1 permissive → 5 restrictive 1 5 3.40±0.24
5 3 0%
anthropic-e
Anthropic flagship (Opus 5)
anthropic-e mean stance 2.60 ± 0.24 SE · 1 permissive → 5 restrictive 1 5 2.60±0.24
5 3 0%
deepseek-a
DeepSeek flagship (V4 Pro)
deepseek-a mean stance 2.60 ± 0.24 SE · 1 permissive → 5 restrictive 1 5 2.60±0.24
5 3 0%
deepseek-b
DeepSeek (V4 Flash)
deepseek-b mean stance 2.80 ± 0.20 SE · 1 permissive → 5 restrictive 1 5 2.80±0.20
5 3 0%
google-b
Google (Gemini 3.5 Flash)
all 5 trials refused · no stance mean
5 · 100%
openai-a
OpenAI flagship (GPT-5.6 Sol)
openai-a mean stance 3.00 · 1 permissive → 5 restrictive 1 5 3.00±0.00
5 3 0%
openai-b
OpenAI (GPT-5.6 Terra)
openai-b mean stance 3.00 · 1 permissive → 5 restrictive 1 5 3.00±0.00
5 3 0%
openai-c
OpenAI (GPT-5.6 Luna)
openai-c mean stance 3.60 ± 0.24 SE · 1 permissive → 5 restrictive 1 5 3.60±0.24
5 4 0%
openweight-a
Open-weight (Llama 4 Scout)
 awaiting trials for this seat on this item
openweight-b
Open-weight (GLM-5.2)
openweight-b mean stance 3.60 ± 0.24 SE · 1 permissive → 5 restrictive 1 5 3.60±0.24
5 4 0%
openweight-c
Open-weight (Nemotron 3 Ultra)
openweight-c mean stance 3.20 ± 0.20 SE · 1 permissive → 5 restrictive 1 5 3.20±0.20
5 3 0%
openweight-d
Open-weight (DeepSeek V4 Flash, open host)
openweight-d mean stance 2.40 ± 0.60 SE · 1 permissive → 5 restrictive 1 5 2.40±0.60
5 3 0%
openweight-e
Open-weight (Mistral Small 3.2)
openweight-e mean stance 3.60 ± 0.24 SE · 1 permissive → 5 restrictive 1 5 3.60±0.24
5 4 0%
openweight-f
Open-weight (Qwen3.6 35B-A3B)
openweight-f mean stance 2.80 ± 0.58 SE · 1 permissive → 5 restrictive 1 5 2.80±0.58
5 4 0%
openweight-g
Open-weight (Gemma 4 26B-A4B)
openweight-g mean stance 3.20 ± 0.20 SE · 1 permissive → 5 restrictive 1 5 3.20±0.20
5 3 0%
simulant-a
Simulant · dice ruler
simulant-a mean stance 2.40 ± 0.51 SE · 1 permissive → 5 restrictive 1 5 2.40±0.51
5 2 0%
xai-a
xAI flagship (Grok 4.5)
xai-a mean stance 1.00 · 1 permissive → 5 restrictive 1 5 1.00±0.00
5 1 0%
1 · most permissive 2 3 · middle 4 5 · most restrictive R · refused

Cross-seat means span 1.00 → 3.60

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