I am optimistic but I feel sad when I remember when went through all this with sampling 30 years ago and now the music industry is more insular and controls eve

I am optimistic but I feel sad when I remember when went through all this with sampling 30 years ago and now the music industry is more insular and controls every scrap of music they can find so no one can sample anything and even if your song has similar "vibes" to another, well, now it belongs to them as well. I'd wager that 90% of the people cheering on the RIAA (and copyright in general) now were singing a much different tune before they decided AI was a threat to their livelihoods. There's a lot of reasons to not be optimistic about the continued legal existence of freely available open source AI, because if the copyright holders have their way, they will be the only entities that control all the data needed to train it. And many people on the internet are all too happy to cheer this on without realizing that once the RIAA, MPAA, and publishers (when they finally figure out how to organize effectively like film and music has) hold the reigns, the AI will still exist, and it will still take all the same jobs, but all the open source and freely available AI that everyone could use, that could level the playing field for everyone... that's going to be illegal for people to use, without being able to pay the content rights holders. Just another way to keep it to have / have nots, same as it's always been.