Arguments like these are an example of why we need to be reminded of the principle of copyright: to protect artists and creatives from having to compete against

Arguments like these are an example of why we need to be reminded of the principle of copyright: to protect artists and creatives from having to compete against themselves in the form of someone simply taking their work and profiting from it as if it were their own without fair compensation or consequences. No one cares that Google is scraping their website because Google isn’t competing with them, or at the very least not using said site content to compete with them. Not so with ChatGPT