[bluefirebrand]

> Now, AI models are capable of reproducing copyrighted works to a degree of high accuracy, especially if those works recur very frequently in the training data, but I believe that's a different issue

I disagree. I think it is the exact issue. I think that treating it as a different issue is legal stickhandling that goes against the spirit of what fair use is intended to be, to get the outcome that the rich and powerful want.

[atleastoptimal]

Extremely strict copyright laws were intended to give the rich and powerful the outcomes they want, allowing corporations to rich themselves on IP gatekeeping. Until the last couple years, it was firmly corporation and wealth aligned to be extremely litigious and offer little leeway for using copyrighted works.

[bluefirebrand]

And now that it is advantageous for the corporations and wealthy to ignore that, they are using it to hoover up public data to enrich themselves even further

This reversal isn't making it better to be a poor artist you know. It's further consolidating power and wealth upward by looting the public (and not so public) domain

Don't believe me? Disney is making deals with big image model providers to allow generation of their characters, meanwhile poorer online artists will get nothing

That's just one example