> You don't need to pay for or "borrow" anything to learn from copyrighted works. someone pays, just maybe not you. How do you think google/meta/et al offer yo

> You don't need to pay for or "borrow" anything to learn from copyrighted works. someone pays, just maybe not you. How do you think google/meta/et al offer you a service free at the point of delivery, through charity? > You can google an image of any great work of art and look at it for as long as you like see my bit about google. The copyright still is with the owner. That image can be removed, should the owner wish, but for various reasons its too expensive to get google to respect that. > I would argue most people are quite happy with the existence of something like Google search yes, because its a symbiotic relationship. I as a creator, make something that people want to find, google points them to me, and I get people's attention. I might do that to fluff my ego, or try and convert it to cash through sales or something. The AI step threatens to remove that relationship. Instead of being passed to me, the AI just pastes shit its gleaned from mine and other websites, leaving no chance of me getting a reward for making that website.