Why do you think that about people who disagree with you? You're responding directly to someone who's said they think there's issues, and not pretending. Do you think they're lying? Did you not read what they said?
And AFAICT a lot of other people think similarly to me.
The perverse incentives to rationalize are on the side of the people looking to exploit the confusion, not the people who are saying "wait a minute, what you're actually doing is..."
So a gold rush person claiming opponents must be pretending because of incentives... seems like the category of "every accusation is a confession".
They can have a moral view that AI is "stealing" but they are claiming there is actually a legal issue at play.
I don't want my children to pay a license fee to their school or their textbook publishers for what they learn in school.
The amount of IP risk caused by USING (not training) AI models to produce code, especially wholesale commercial code that competes with code that was contained in the training data, is poorly understood.