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Interesting point. But you didn't steal all those books. I think that's the problem. If you couldn't access a book you might pirate it, But these guys pirated them all, all the video all the books all the art all the photos all the conversations. They used copyrighted works to train their models.
This seems like the key point. The teacher who buys a text book to share it's contents with others is the intended use of the content. There's clearly no theft there. If the creators of all this content had genuinely intended it to be used this way then there would be no problem. But the vast majority of artists/authors/creators seem to be against the use of their work like this (perhaps given appropriate compensation they could have been brought on side?)
This logic appeals to me but I'm curious how it could work legally as well as potential side effects. It seems likely that legal arguments would ensue over intended use of content, and it doesn't seem like it should be illegal to use some created work in a new or unintended manner.
I think the overall goals are to encourage creative and academic work (which requires funding creators), discourage centralization of knowledge (prevent leverage over and manipulation of populace), encourage distrust of llm output without source references in output, and discourage overuse of generative AI. I'm sure there are more, but that's what comes to mind.