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I mean this isn't miles away from what the writer's strike is about. Certainly I think the technology is great but after the last round of tech companies turning out to be fuckwits (Facebook, Google etc) it's only natural that people are going to want to make sure this stuff is properly regulated and run fairly (not at the expense of human creatives).
As it stands now, I actually think it is miles away.
Studio's were raking in huge profits from digital residuals that weren't being passed to creatives, but AI models aren't currently paying copyright holders anything. If they suddenly did start paying publishers for use, it would almost certainly exclude payment to the actual creatives.
I'd also point out that LLM's aren't like digital distribution models because LLM's aren't distributing copyrighted works, at best you can say they're distributing a very lossy (to use someone else's term) compressed alternative that has to be pieced back together manually if you really wanted to extract it.
No argument that AI should be properly regulated, but I don't think copyright is the right framework to be doing it.