The benefit is that our collective genius isn’t mined by mega corps and rented back to us. That we exist as more than mindless resources to be tapped for profit.

> The benefit is that our collective genius isn’t mined by mega corps and rented back to us.

That sounds like a downside to me, not a benefit. You're basically arguing Copilot, Stable Diffusion, GPT-3, etc (which were all trained on copyrighted works) not existing would be a better situation than them existing. I'm just not seeing that.

If you are going to use my work for free and without attribution and turn it around to compete with me, then it decreases my incentive to produce anything, and if I do it decreases my incentive to publish it. This goes directly against the intentions behind copyright law.

That's the best argument I've heard so far, but still doesn't make sense to me. It's not like your individual project is going to make any significant difference to the capabilities of the resulting AI that's "competing with you" one way or the other. So really all you'd be doing by not releasing your code is shooting yourself in the foot for no gain.

Granted, people are not necessarily rational actors, so maybe you could argue it still makes sense to have some protections in place to assuage people's irrational fears. Maybe like some kind of robots.txt for determining whether a page can be used in an AI dataset could serve that purpose. I'd be hesitant to support anything more burdensome than that.