It is the kind of attitude that will bring regulations; in the USA it will probably take a decade (as it usually does) for legislators catch up to it after some

It is the kind of attitude that will bring regulations; in the USA it will probably take a decade (as it usually does) for legislators catch up to it after some company skirting copyright laws has became big enough to be another economical powerhouse for the US's economy. The EU is probably already acting on it behind closed doors, the usual vitriol against "innovation" peddled by the American-way of doing business went pretty high against the AI Act (which is definitely far from perfect but a step into some direction to regulate it), in the near future I can see more rulings or even new regulation to address the absurdity of AI companies consuming all this data for their own profits with no compensation to the creators of it. My personal opinion is that leaving "innovation" be the only guidance to what is "good" without any morality imbued is stupid. A lot of us has seen the cycle by now, what was innovative before becomes entrenched, the entrenched companies become behemoths, and obviously start abusing their position of power when consumers have very little options to not be in the system they created. The downfall of tech from what I experienced in the early 2000s to what it has come to be in the 2020s is just sad, it's the new 80s finance yuppie bullshit, instead of coke-addicted greedy as fuck bros we have nerdy-blabbing-about-changing-the-world greedy fucks reaping the profits. This will get ugly, and companies doing it will deserve the retribution if they get fucked.