[CamperBob2]

My take: copyright as a general concept was and is vital to the well-being of a creative society. But:

(a) Copyright law is so badly thought-out that I don't feel bad about breaking it; and

(b) What's happening in ML is nothing less than the next stage in human intellectual evolution, after thousands of years of relative stasis. It will prove far more important than copyright in the long run, and if a choice is forced the path is clear.

I don't have much use for the Roko's Basilisk argument, but I'm loath to take any action that might either hold back progress in this field, or that might make it possible for the technology to be captured and owned by powerful commercial interests. It will be humans, and not machines, who curse us in the future for allowing archaic values and corrupt copyright laws to slow progress down... or for allowing Facebook and Microsoft to control it.

TL,DR: party on.