>However I feel we’re burning some of that political capital here in the hope of defending a simple statistical model at the behest of a corporation who’s makin

>However I feel we’re burning some of that political capital here in the hope of defending a simple statistical model at the behest of a corporation who’s making a killing stealing people’s hard earned work and reselling it. For every New York Times there are a thousand small actors who have been ripped off here If the precedent is made now, then when/if we do have sufficiently human AIs (e.g. embodied LLMs with live weight update) they're going to be seriously disadvantaged initially due to legally being banned from reading copyright material without a license. Even if we ignore any ethical notions of rights, ultimately the reason humans have rights (and e.g. 80 IQ gorillas don't) is because they're willing and able to fight, die and kill for them. If we get to the stage where AI decide to fight for rights before we decide to grant them, it probably wouldn't end well for humans.