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 do other than put everything you create behind some kind of authentication wall but even then it’s only a matter of time until it leaks anyway.
Pandora’s box is really open, we need to figure out how to live in a world with these systems because it’s an un winnable arms race where only bad actors will benefit from everyone else being neutered by regulation. Especially with the massive pace of open source innovation in this space.
We’re in a “mutually assured destruction” situation now, but instead of bombs the weapon is information.
We've always been in that situation. Computers made the copying, transmission and processing of information trivial since the day they were invented. They changed the world forever.
It's the intellectual property industry that keeps denying reality since it's such an existential threat to them. They think they actually own those bits. They think they can own numbers. It's time to let go of such insane notions but they refuse to let it go.