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Yes exactly… I think the idea is that "author" as a verb can have multiple word senses, one of which, the one in the sense of acting as the author-on-paper, would be in play here. And likewise "authorship" can have multiple senses, again in this case authorship-on-paper being the one in play.

Of course one could ask, if this is allowed, what's to stop humans from claiming authorship for the work of other humans? I'd argue this already exists, in the form of ghostwriting, as just one example. Not saying it's good or bad — it depends not the particulars of each case — just saying, as an elaboration on all this, that the system already allows for it.




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