Couldn't disagree more strongly, and I hope the outcome is the exact opposite. I think we've already started to see the severe negative consequences when the lion's share of the profits get sucked up by very, very few entities (e.g. we used to have tons of local papers and other entities that made money through advertising, now Google and Facebook, and to a smaller extent Amazon, suck up the majority of that revenue). The idea that everyone else gets to toil to make the content but all the profits flow to the companies with the best AI tech is not a future that's going to end with the utopia vision AI boosters think it will.
All it would do is momentarily slow AI progress (which is fine), and allow OpenAI et al to pull the ladder up behind them (which fuels centralization of power and profit).
By what mechanism do you think your desired outcome would prevent centralization of profit to the players who are already the largest?
It's not trying to prohibit. If they want to use copyrighted material, they should have to pay for it like anyone else would.
> prevent centralization of profit to the players who are already the largest?
Having to destroy the infringing models altogether on top of retroactively compensating all infringed rightsholders would probably take the incumbents down a few pegs and level the playing field somewhat, albeit temporarily.
They'd have to learn how to run their business legally alongside everyone else, while saddled with dealing with an appropriately existential monetary debt.