[mrtksn]

I guess you first should do your revolution, establish your new order where food and housing is a given right and later go after the work of the artist.

[codetrotter]

> do your revolution, establish your new order [...] and later go after the work of the artist

I don't think that's what's going to happen.

But if things get as bad as you guys are saying, maybe after enough people lose their jobs to AI society will change somehow to take care of the less fortunate among us in better ways, providing housing, food and healthcare to the people.

[cataphract]

If you want to reason under the current legal framework that makes the works they create "their" work for economic purposes... then you also need to accept that under that same framework they are not deemed to be the authors.