Call it piracy, then. Except instead of lone crackers breaking the protection on products of big corporations, it's corporations hoovering up the works of zillions of individuals, running it through their copyright-washing algorithm, and selling the results.

The AI learned about copyrighted characters largely from marketing materials. So why should corpos be able to force me to watch the ad for, say, the latest Iron Man movie, but at the same time say that I'm stealing from them when I use that ad to train the AI?

Guess what my stance on 'piracy' is.

Ah, so, the tragedy of the commons: you'll happily pirate every digital good you want, relying on others to make it worth its creators' time and resources to make it. Awesome.

You guessed.. poorly. I buy shit - piracy represents a service problem most typically, and in many cases does not in any way represent a lost sale.

The obvious conclusion is that I'm not tricked into thinking that some one is somehow deprived just because you bought into the 'piracy' propaganda. Side note to consider; why is it called piracy? Would many of the arguments offered by people trying to maintain their dragons horde of IP and the monies from that IP be weakened if we called it what it was - downloading a copy?

Most people are like this - they will gladly buy the things they enjoy when they can afford to. The scale gets tipped when the cracked version works better than the official version, or when some one lacks the disposable income. Its just really hard to demonstrate harm here because there is no harm.