As much as I love the progress in AI (also see Microsoft's recent Office Copilot) - I seriously think that government needs to step in to regulate the fair use

As much as I love the progress in AI (also see Microsoft's recent Office Copilot) - I seriously think that government needs to step in to regulate the fair use of training data. Though this is painted by my personal beliefs, in order to maximise innovation, I believe it's the role of government to implement regulations that support a competitive commercial environment. Without this, monopolies will form around hard to obtain resources, innovation will stagnate and consumers will be subject to exploitation. Currently, data is mostly acquired without user consent and is accessible retroactively. Companies own that data, they can trade it and they can use it however they want to. You as a consumer have no say in this and it's virtually impossible to live a normal life without being the subject of analysis. While it's incredible that companies can produce undeniably valuable products like Copilot - ultimately - they will profit from these products. The irony is they built them from data sourced from you, likely from something you paid for (MS Word, etc). The key ingredient in these products is training data. If you wanted to compete with them, no matter how capable you are as an engineer, you could never make Copilot without the same scale of data Microsoft has gathered. I don't know what kind of regulation would even out the playing field, but I wouldn't mind being compensated for my role in creating these highly profitable products.