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There is some confusion between copyright and patents here. Copyright forbids transmission of knowledge; patents forbid manufacturing. The incentives to manufacture CPUs would still be there if copyright were to be abolished, because patents would still work.

What AI demolishes is the pretense that human art is rare and precious, a scarce resource to channel through forced rivers in order to make money.

What machine-learning will probably result in, is a U-turn from the "knowledge economy", based on gatekeeping information, back into manufacturing-oriented systems, based on actually making stuff.