I don’t mean to go off on too deep of a tangent, but if one person’s (or even many people’s) idea of what’s good for humanity is the only consideration for what’s just, it seems clear that the result would be complete chaos.
As it stands, it doesn’t seem to be an “either or” choice. Tech companies have a lot of money. It seems to me that an agreement that’s fundamentally sustainable and fits shared notions of fairness would probably involve some degree of payment. The alternative would be that these resources become inaccessible for LLM training, because they would need to put up a wall or they would go out of business.
In this case it's the NYT vs OpenAI, last decade it was the RIAA vs Napster.
I'm not much of a libertarian (in fact, I'd prefer a better central government), but I also don't believe IP should have as much protection as it does. I think copyright law is in need of a complete rewrite, and yes, utilitarianism and public use would be part of the consideration. If it were up to me I'd scrap the idea of private intellectual property altogether and publicly fund creative works and release them into the public domain, similar to how we treat creative works of the federal government: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_status_of_works_by_t...
Rather than capitalists competing to own ideas, grant-seekers would seek funding to pursue and further develop their ideas. No one would get rich off such a system, which is a side benefit in my eyes.