Whole lines of Dialog were lifted word for word from the book Neuromancer.
Wachowskis did not just rip off GiTS, they blatantly stole ideas from GiST, Shadowrun, DBZ, and straight up plagiarized Neuromancer to where their should of been a major lawsuit.
Both Neuromancer and Shadow Run has a massive computer network called the Matrix where people load their consciousness into, Shadowrun’s Ice is exactly like the Maxtrix Agents down to a T.
Yes Star Wars “borrowed” ideas, but Lucas at least changed names around and maybe rewrote archtypes to fit the setting better. Neuromancer even had a “City” named Zion where non-captured people lived.