[dragonwriter]

> If the former ever gets tested in court, it's the end of the road. All major AI companies have trained on copyrighted work, one way or another.

You assume that getting tested means the AI trainers lose, and also thar the model architectures that have been developed can’t be retrained from scratch with public domain, owned, and purpose-licensed material. (With several AI companies having been actively pursuing deals to license content for AI training for a while now.)