In 2020, under lockdown, I was in calls with some amazing lawyers to push back against the RIAA's ridiculous claim that youtube-dl was illegal. github.blog/2020-11-16-s...
That is to say, if you are cheering them on now because you hate AI, you forget what copyright maximalism is.
Again, the only thing copyright maximalism can deliver is a world where AI models are very expensive and licensed from the likes of Getty and Universal Studios, not a world without AI.
looking forward to a future where every creative must tithe to the hedge fund that owns the copyright to every work that ever slightly inspired their own works.