Did my use of that quote harm the incentive of OpenAI to produce it in the first place? No of course not. Contrast with the entire value prop of LLMs being th

Did my use of that quote harm the incentive of OpenAI to produce it in the first place? No of course not. Contrast with the entire value prop of LLMs being that you can utilize the knowledge in them without paying any time or credit toward the source, which does indeed destroy all commercial and most non-commercial incentives of producing and sharing such information. The entire point of copyright law is to protect the incentives to produce work. The models are certainly doing something of value that also should be protected (and surely they’ll utilize law to do so), but ultimately a system that sucks up all prior works and obviates the need to view/buy them and destroys almost all incentive to produce new ones will not stand. Of course this will boil down to model creators saying it doesn’t create incentive (except for “possibly capturing all future value of the light cone,” when talking amongst themselves) and original creators claiming that it does.