My guess is the act of production that is passed as original content tends to have more avenues to harm producers than consumption. Alarm bells of this magnitu

My guess is the act of production that is passed as original content tends to have more avenues to harm producers than consumption. Alarm bells of this magnitude haven't been rung about people torrenting films for decades; it's a given that some people are just going to do it and there's little that can be done to stop it. Producing new data from original data of questionable lineage makes the questionable acts visible. Copilot and the like actively encourage this creation. If it were possible to peek into the rooms of everyone who downloaded a torrent to admonish them then maybe pirating would have been made a modicum more taboo. But those consumers never intended to leave their rooms. Copilot forces them to leave their rooms if they want their derivative work to be used.