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I hope you realize they aren't fighting for the rights of artists. They are fighting for their exclusive right to exploit artists.
You're not wrong, but if they win against AI, all artists will benefit because of the precedent that it would set.
What I think will actually happen if this is looking to not go in the tech bros' favour is that they'll settle and make a potential deal with large copyright holders for ongoing usage, and that would screw individual artists.
It wont do anything of the sort. Even if you accept the premise that somehow artists are being exploited from learning from their previous works, all that will happen is the AI companies will shift out of America to a juristiction that doesnt value extracting rents from IP above all else.