Technology

Exactly!!
Thank God, you get it.

This video (which was trending a while ago) explained it pretty well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pt7GtDMTd3k

And to add to what you said, people have some huge misunderstandings about how Gen AI work. They think it somehow just copy pastes portions of the art it was trained on, and that's it. That's not the case AT ALL, it's not even close to that.

AI models should be allowed to be trained on copy righted data. If they shouldn't be allowed to do that, then humans shouldn't be allowed to do it either. Why do we give such advice to upcoming writers and musicians and artists, to consume the kind of content that they want to create in the future? To read the kind of books that they want to write like? To listen to the kind of music that they want to create? To look at pieces of art that they want to create? Should humans ALSO be limited to only publuc domain content?? I really don't think so.

Again, Gen AI models don't just copy paste stuff from their training set of data. They understand what makes up that piece of data. Just like a human does.

Thankfully, reasoning models like Deepseek-R1 have started to show the average person how an AI actually reasons and thinks about things and that they don't just spew stuff out of nowhere in the hopes that it makes some kind of sense, slapping pieces of their training data set together to write something that's barely comprehensible. The "Think" tags in such models really helped clarify some huge misunderstandings that some people had. Although, many many people are still left who have a really messed up view of how AIs work, and they somehow speak with such confidence about these topics with no knowledge of the technical details. It drives me nuts.