The "fairness" argument is weaker than the "sustainable creation" one.
If LLMs could create quality literature, or social media create in-depth reporting, then I'd have no problem with the tide of technological progress flowing.
Unfortunately, recent history has shown that it's trivial for the market to cannibalize the financial model of creators without replacing it.
And as a result, society gets {no more that thing} + {watered down, shitty version}.
Which isn't great.
So I'd love to hear an argument from the 'fuck copyright, let's go AI' crowd (not the position you seem to be espousing) on what year +10 of rampant AI ingestion of copyrighted works looks like...
If LLMs could create quality literature, or social media create in-depth reporting, then I'd have no problem with the tide of technological progress flowing.
Unfortunately, recent history has shown that it's trivial for the market to cannibalize the financial model of creators without replacing it.
And as a result, society gets {no more that thing} + {watered down, shitty version}.
Which isn't great.
So I'd love to hear an argument from the 'fuck copyright, let's go AI' crowd (not the position you seem to be espousing) on what year +10 of rampant AI ingestion of copyrighted works looks like...