I sell apples at the market. How can I prevent people from buying my apples just to make pies or tarts and pretending those products are theirs? I grew the apple, I should be able to decide what people do with it. I have a sign that says the apples are only for eating, but people are ignoring it.
I sell apples at the market. Someone took my apple for free and made a pie out of it. They said it was not theft, because my market stall was in the public. I sold an apple with DRM. One person bought my apple and gave it to a Chinese hacker, whom stripped the DRM and duplicated my apple for everyone, for free. They said it was not theft. I grew an apple and put it on a cloud provider's server. I sold access to many…
Edit: is “sufficiently transformative use” the metaphor? Is an LLM an apple pie baked out of the internet’s apple?