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This line of argument is exactly what the LLM trust me bros are gunning for.
copyright and IP are capitalist nonsense. you can't own an idea, it's utterly preposterous. likewise, you can't "steal" someones "intellectual property" by downloading it or using it to train an LLM. copying is not theft. your line of argument is exactly what corporations like Disney have paid untold millions to politicians for.
I'm gonna say, I don't like the use of LLMs to replace real artists, but IP law is not an appropriate vehicle to stop it happening. AIs trained on pirated material should face the consequences for that, but scraping publicly available (not the same as public domain) material is ethically no different to human artists taking inspiration from that same material. It's the output that needs to be restricted, not the input.