But that does make me think, that in a sane society with a functional legislature I wouldn't have to pick a dog in this fight. I'd have have enough faith in lawmakers and the political process to pursue a path towards copyright reform that reigns in abuses from both AI companies and megacorp rightsholders
Alas, for now I'm hoping that aforementioned megacorps sue OpenAI into a painful lesson.
The same megacorps are suing Internet Archive for their collection of 78rpm records. These guys would rather see art orphaned and die.
More generally the best we can hope for us to discourage concentrated power, both in government and corporate forms.
And what they actually did is violate the requirement to have a physical copy of the book they were lending.
As I understand it, they did not offer anything new that wasn't available to loan prior.
I could be wrong. But if I'm not, I see no reason to lambast IA.
Copyright cartels (RIAA, MPAA) that monetized young artists without paying them much at all [1], vs the AI megalomaniacs who took all the work for free and used Kenyans at $2 an hour [2] so that they can raise "$7 trillion" for their AI infrastructure
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/LetsTalkMusic/comments/1fzyr0u/arti...
[2] https://time.com/6247678/openai-chatgpt-kenya-workers/