Imagine consultants had to cite sources and pay-out every time they referenced knowledge gained from reading a research paper at working at a formal employer.

I can understand the need to prevent verbatim copying of data. But that is a problem solved on the output side of LLM's, not on the data input for training.

It is completely legal for someone to pay me to summarize the news for them every morning. I can't help but feel that knee-jerk regulation is going to be ultimately bad for everyone.