[busssard]

for me the biggest difference is the fact that the AI can be commercialized without the need for any acknowledgement. It could not exist without the "inspiration" as you call it. But at the same time its throughput allows for massive gains of the person owning the model. So i would argue robots.txt is the wrong analogy. We rather need a licensing system for content. Apache, MIT, GNU etc for Blogentries, Pictures, Videos etc

[hooverd]

If people want to argue that AI learns like a human, then creative rights should belong the AI model. If people want to argue that AI is a tool, then they should take those into consideration with their training data. You can't have your cake and eat it too.

That's completely orthogonal to copyright terms being way too long though.