Not just AI is threatened, but also the use of sites like StackOverflow because some of those snippets might infringe a license. So we have to write everything from our heads, de novo. No more googling for solutions.
I think we should just relax copyright, it's dying anyway. Language models allow people to borrow skills learned from other people, and solve tasks. That's huge. Like Matrix, loading up a new skill at the press of a button. Can we give up such a huge advantage in order to protect copyright?
I think the notion of copyright has been under attack already for 2 decades by the internet, search engine and social networks. They all work against it, and AI does it even more. It just encapsulates the whole culture in a box, mixing everything up, all copyrights melting away, everything one prompt away. This could be a new medium of propagation for ideas. No longer limited to human brains and books, they can now propagate through language models more efficiently.
