I think AI aren’t people, and that they’re not even AI: it’s machine learning, and ML is a subset of AI that we haven’t really broken out of. ML is a tool, and

I think AI aren’t people, and that they’re not even AI: it’s machine learning, and ML is a subset of AI that we haven’t really broken out of. ML is a tool, and asking whether ML should be allowed to learn on copyrighted work is equivalent to asking whether your computer is allowed to contain a copyrighted work: “it depends.” I’m in favor of getting rid of copyright entirely, since it’s become a far cry from what it was intended to be, but we have to acknowledge both sides of the arguments in order to proceed.