[AlexandrB]

> The other thing is it seems only OpenAI seemingly has scanned as much copyrighted material as they have, arguably more than anyone else. Can others do so legally?

It's not even just about legality. Since everyone became aware of AI platforms are locking down to prevent this kind of scraping (without a fee) again. See: Reddit. There's also the issue of increasing quantities of AI slop that now has to be filtered through.

It almost feels like the early movers in AI are like Napster. They exploited holes in enforcement + new technology to do something that wasn't possible before and that can't be repeated in the same way either.

[giancarlostoro]

My thing with AI is, if its smart like a person, it shouldn't have any bariers, just enough of a basis to learn on the fly by using your browser if it needs to. We don't all know "everything" but we can do reasonable research to have some understanding of various topics. Anyway, I agree with you, I also think what we think is AI today is not what we will tomorrow. I also think AI should be just as free as anybody else to read any other content, as long as its not disruptive to other services.