I can’t speak for everyone, but personally I find that copyright can be used properly or abused, at both sides (holder/consumer). It doesn’t mean that copyright is bad, only particular caregories of claims and usage are. But abusing copyrighted material from millions of little creators at insanely automated scale is another level of evil, especially when they explicitly require consent for exactly this type of use.
worrying that requiring consent to train an AI model will inevitably lead to requiring consent to make handmade art that’s a little too similar to some other existing artwork
That’s the root of misunderstanding, afaict. We can agree that at-scale processing is bad and that fair use is still okay. A human with a pen (or a text editor) can’t damage copyright at scale by learning terabytes of material in few weeks and producing the same amount in hours, so they can be excluded from this. Humans who use AI can, so they’re a target.
I can’t speak for everyone, but personally I find that copyright can be used properly or abused, at both sides (holder/consumer). It doesn’t mean that copyright is bad, only particular caregories of claims and usage are. But abusing copyrighted material from millions of little creators at insanely automated scale is another level of evil, especially when they explicitly require consent for exactly this type of use.
worrying that requiring consent to train an AI model will inevitably lead to requiring consent to make handmade art that’s a little too similar to some other existing artwork
That’s the root of misunderstanding, afaict. We can agree that at-scale processing is bad and that fair use is still okay. A human with a pen (or a text editor) can’t damage copyright at scale by learning terabytes of material in few weeks and producing the same amount in hours, so they can be excluded from this. Humans who use AI can, so they’re a target.