[spacechild1]

> We have a concept of fair use in copyright because economic growth is essentially tied to the free proliferation of information.

Who is "we"? The concept of "fair use" is pretty specific to the US. There is no "fair use" in Germany, for example.

Personally, I like the idea of "fair use", but I personally don't think that it applies to commercial closed-source AI model training. The US Copyright Office seems to agree with this assessement:

> Various uses of copyrighted works in AI training are likely to be transformative. The extent to which they are fair, however, will depend on what works were used, from what source, for what purpose, and with what controls on the outputs—all of which can affect the market. When a model is deployed for purposes such as analysis or research—the types of uses that are critical to international competitiveness—the outputs are unlikely to substitute for expressive works used in training. But making commercial use of vast troves of copyrighted works to produce expressive content that competes with them in existing markets, especially where this is accomplished through illegal access, goes beyond established fair use boundaries.

https://www.copyright.gov/ai/Copyright-and-Artificial-Intell...