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Does Google "remember" that my site used scraped content to get started?

There are lots of scrapers that enable gathering a lot of content for my keywords with minimal time or energy invested, and most of them use the TBS API to make the content more unique.  

I want to set up a couple of sites immediately, using articles that are scraped and auto-spun, and just reviewed to be sure they're readable.  I've found most of them have minor (??) problems reported by Copyscape. 
I expect Google would recognize that the articles are not totally unique, and would be less pleased than if I had created higher quality, more unique articles.

So, if I publish now but come back in a week or two and improve the number, the quality and the uniqueness of the articles, does Google come back and give me higher marks for the improvements, forgiving all past sins?  Or do they forever penalize me forever because they detected I used scraped content to get started?

I'm willing to delay each site for a while until I work out the content, but I wonder if it isn't better to get something available now than to wait for more perfection in the future?

Thanks, SNM.

I'll take your advice and post
- existing articles with attribution,
- personally created articles,
- plus maybe a few spun articles, with quality enhancements via research and the Spin Wizard.