My father got arrested and almost jailed for burning MP3 and audio disks for money. These people can scrape other people’s work for profit, and then get applauded by investors.

Piracy for me but not for thee.

I wonder if the next step will be making it able for a human to copyright the output of generative AI models, only for that these companies making sure through terms of use that they’ll be holding 50+% of the copyright and the profits in case of selling their slop.