This debate is about whether using artists' and authors' works to train AI models counts as a kind of "use" that should be paid for, like sampling music or reprinting a text. One side will argue that creative work is intellectual property and that training without compensation is exploitation at scale. The other side will emphasize that training is more like "reading and learning" than copying, and that imposing royalties could slow innovation and be technically very hard to implement fairly. Underneath it all is a clash between existing copyright frameworks and the realities of machine learning.
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