Does this apply to GPT too? They also scraped massive amounts of copyrighted text. The situation with art is super weird because it seems the difference between them is how threatened they are not whether they actually have a compelling argument which is why there was a whole kerfufle about Copilot because devs felt threatened.

When you pick people who aren’t in the situation where their livelihood depends on them holding a specific opinion on AI, like authors, the copyright issue suddenly doesn’t matter.