“I think it would be a valid argument to [do impossible thing given there is no control case]” Alternatively, you can just realize that copyright exists to ret

“I think it would be a valid argument to [do impossible thing given there is no control case]” Alternatively, you can just realize that copyright exists to retain incentive to create and share creative work. AI’s entire value prop in this domain, quite explicitly, is to obviate the need for artists to be doing the art. That is incentive destruction. You can observe that artists tend not to publish work directly into public domain despite always having the ability. You can observe that most art people actually consume is made by professional artists. It’s not hard to connect the dots when one steps outside of their own ridiculous sense of entitlement to profit off others’ work. I’d respect the anti-copyright view a whole lot more if they just came out and said it: “I deserve to be able to profit off other people’s labor without paying them.”