[TaylorAlexander]

I am more arguing that if it’s considered taking, we should follow the path I recommend.

Whether or not it is taking is more nuanced, but I will say I’m not sympathetic to the idea that it’s broadly similar to a human looking at the work. It’s just very, very different. You can’t spin up a copy of a human on a cloud server and make them work 24/7.

I would expect that as laypeople we aren’t equipped to reason about this effectively. I suspect that decades or more of case law would be relevant to how this would be viewed, and I’m personally not equipped to argue it.

What I do know is that artists don’t feel good about it. They feel like they’re being taken from. And I’m not inclined to quickly dismiss their concerns. I think this needs careful, deliberate consideration. And if a system could be built that is consent based, I’d feel much better about it. A human child could be raised and mature without ever being exposed to copyrighted material beyond a handful of books (harder in the modern world but common 200 years ago). Maybe we just need to build better models. It certainly seems possible.