> If you put your "work" out in the world, anyone who views it, is automatically training their brains on it. Viewing is training. A perfectly reasonable view

> If you put your "work" out in the world, anyone who views it, is automatically training their brains on it. Viewing is training. A perfectly reasonable view for humans, since you shouldn't be able to copyright a brain. Not at all a reasonable view for a computer, until we also get to freely use all the copyrighted works ourselves. The problem here is that AI training is asymmetric: the people training an AI use works in violation of their licenses, but don't let their own works be used in the same way. For instance, Microsoft uses code on GitHub to train Copilot, but you still don't get to freely the source code of Windows or GitHub. I am absolutely in favor of eliminating copyright and patent law. I am not in favor of keeping it around while letting AI become a laundering mechanism to get around it. AI training should not get to uniquely ignore copyright; copyright should cease to exist.