I mean, personally I think AI model training makes the world worse, so it's a pretty reconcilable set of views.

In what way(s) does training a language model make the world worse?

> Writer/Artist/Dev: “I think publishing this work will improve the world in some way. I’ll put it out there on the public internet for all the world to see for free.”

Surely you must know this is a bullshit argument right? Almost everyone that publishes their work publicly on the internet publishes it under a particular license.

Yes, there are some that decide to publish under the equivalent of the public domain or a CC0 license, but the vast majority of writing, art and code is licensed under specific conditions and for the most part they retain the full rights to the work.

Food for thought: Under what license did you publish this comment?

When a license isn’t specified, then the work is unlicensed. Meaning, you have not been granted any particular permission to it beyond the terms of the website and what the law provides by default. Generally, that means you can use the work in certain ways and in certain contexts, such as the notion of “fair use” in copyright law, but otherwise your rights to use and distribute it are pretty limited.

There is nothing to think about. All rights reserved except those provided specifically to Y Combinator as outlined by the "User Content Transmitted Through the Site" section of https://www.ycombinator.com/legal/

>Yes, there are some that decide to publish under the equivalent of the public domain or a CC0 license, but the vast majority of writing, art and code is licensed under specific conditions and for the most part they retain the full rights to the work.

Perhaps we need a licence that precludes use for training AI's. I don't know how you could enforce that though.

Any AI that is deployed in a way where it makes money (including from ads) becomes a tool of commercial use, and there are lots of currently-used licences that deal with commercial use.

True, but that still leaves noncommercial AI -- so it's not really a substitute for being able to prohibit AI training as one of the uses of your work.