Can AI be a moral victim? The role of moral patiency and ownership perceptions in ethical judgments of using AI-generated content

ArXi:2604.26956v1 Announce Type: cross The growing use of generative AI raises ethical concerns about authorship and plagiarism. This study examines how people judge the reuse of AI-generated content, focusing on moral patiency and ownership perceptions. In an experiment, participants evaluated two substantively similar manuscripts in which the original source was described as