> Lossy or not, the training data provides value. If all the various someones had not spent time making all the stuff that ends up as training data, then the mo

> Lossy or not, the training data provides value. If all the various someones had not spent time making all the stuff that ends up as training data, then the model it trains would not exist. I don’t think deriving value is the measure for infringement. The artist derived value from society and from countless inspirations, should they be compensated? Copyright is the right to distribute your content, not to control it in every way and derive maximum value possible. The purpose of copyright is to incentivize creators and they already get, in the US, 70+ years of monopoly preventing anyone else from selling copies. This seems like more than enough incentive for creators to create, as evidenced by massive copyrighted material created at a rate far above population growth (more content is created and more money is made via copyright than ever before).