Even if they win against openAI, how would this prevent something like a Chinese or Russian LLM from “stealing” their content and making their own superior LLM that isnt weakened by regulation like the ones in the United States. And I say this as someone that is extremely bothered by how easily mass amounts of open content can just be vacuumed up into a training set with reckless abandon and there isn’t much you can…
This suggests to me that copyright laws are becoming out of date. The original intent was to provide an incentive for human authors to publish work, but has become more out of touch since the internet allowed virtually free publishing and copying. I think with the dawn of LLMs, copyright law is now mainly incentivising lawyers.
The cost of copying and publishing has been almost irrelevant to the need for copyright at least since the times of the printing press. In fact, when copying books was extremely expensive work, copyright was not even that needed - the physical book was about as valuable as the contents, so no money was there to be made from copying someone else's work vs coming up with your own.