[mixdup]

>If AI proves to be more beneficial to the public interest than copyright, then copyright will have to go.

Going forward? Okay, sure. But people created all of the works they created with the understanding of the old system. If you want to change the deal, then creators need to know that first so they can decide if they still want to participate

Allowing everyone to create everything and spend that labor with the promise of copyright, and then pull the rug "oops this is just too important" is not fair to the people who put in that labor, especially when the people redefining the arrangement are getting 100% of the value and the creators got and will get nothing

[CamperBob2]

Life isn't fair, and 100+ year copyright terms enforced eternally with unbreakable DRM sure as hell aren't.

But open-weight LLMs are a pretty decent compromise.