> Copyright isn't required once any work can be created faster than you can snap your fingers.
Copyright isn't required if you use a tool built upon violating copyright?
Breathing isn't required if someone strangles everyone to death.
(Now we can all transcend breathing, in the new post-living higher plane of existence. Which surely is viable and great, and totally won't be abused to enrich the worst people, to the detriment of everyone else.)
It was originally created because printers needed a constant stream of new works because once they published something their competitors could immediately copy it and republish it without the initial cost of making the work.
> but the reality (for better or worse) seems to be that AI is not going away.
AI is in a hype cycle at the moment. Once tech companies realise that they're not going to be able to recoup the billions of dollars they've dumped into the money hole, they'll either raise prices or withdraw products (or a mixture of both).
Consumers, by and large, don't like generative AI. Or at least they don't like it enough to make it pay for itself.
Copyright isn't required if you use a tool built upon violating copyright?
Breathing isn't required if someone strangles everyone to death.
(Now we can all transcend breathing, in the new post-living higher plane of existence. Which surely is viable and great, and totally won't be abused to enrich the worst people, to the detriment of everyone else.)