I don't see why we need any new laws to deal with it. Existing 'fair use' legislation should suffice. The only issue I see is if the AI quotes the text word-fo

I don't see why we need any new laws to deal with it. Existing 'fair use' legislation should suffice. The only issue I see is if the AI quotes the text word-for-word and allows the user to craft prompts in such a way that they can extract a substantial amount of copyrighted text in a predictable, organized manner. If the AI spits out short quotes from the copyrighted text in a way that is relevant to the prompt and it doesn't allow the user to use prompt-engineering to reliably obtain the full text, then I don't see a problem. If the prompt engineering required to extract the full text is highly complicated and difficult to execute in a reliable way, then I think it should not be an issue. If some third party app decides to use AI with clever prompt engineering on the back end to extract copyright text in order to bypass copyright laws (and automatically reconstruct the full text to present to their users), then the third party app should be held responsible, not the AI provider. The AI provider's responsibility should be limited to ensuring that prompts cannot be used in a predictable, repeatable way to extract a substantial, contiguous portion of the copyrighted text. The copyright violation occurs at the moment that the material is presented to the end user (a human). Merely storing the material and not presenting it to any human should not be a copyright violation... Otherwise you might as well sue Seagate and Western Digital for copyrighted material being stored on hard drives manufactured by them. It would not make sense. Your honor, I rest my case.