> Yeah, it seems like so many people in here are shilling for AI companies over actual creators, it is absolutely depressing. It's the general sentiment on HN.

> Yeah, it seems like so many people in here are shilling for AI companies over actual creators, it is absolutely depressing. It's the general sentiment on HN. Remember this forum is based in SV, moving fast, breaking things, tech eating the world, all that. This is a really complex issue. Personally I really dislike copyright as it has been used in practice up to now: as a way to lock culture and progress away behind the control of megacorporations. But now we have the case where the megacorporations are suggesting that they should be immune to such restrictions, free to bypass them given that their bots "transform" the original works. It actually seems like copyright is the only possible check on their power. I can't claim to know how the matter of law will be resolved here, but "always bet on the biggest corporations winning" is a generally useful heuristic to apply. By far the worst outcome would be that megacorps are deemed immune from obeying copyright restrictions when consuming creative works, but are somehow still protected by copyright when their bots spit out derived works.