I would be against a tax. In my country there are private institutions that collect royalties for any storage medium that is sold. Clients of these institutions are small and large media companies and authors, who get a part of the loot.

Harddrives and any form of media storage is more expensive for that reason. Not much, but you always pay. Reason for that is that these device would allow for copies of copyrighted material to be stored. And you cannot just found a private org like that, you need the sanction of a public office.

You can guess how AI would be factored in here, you will be forced to pay and money would be funnelled to established players. No thank you, I would vote for the Stalin option in that case.