I wonder whether this will change when we get self-aware sentient AIs. What if e.g. Koko the gorilla [0] had made a painting? Could they have claimed copyright with their limited sign language capability?
There will be no need for Microsoft, for OpenAI, for copyright, for software, for open source, for jobs. It will be a civilisation shattering event.
I think it’s already going to be fun watching OpenAISoft stop their own products being used to recreate themselves.
“Write my a functionally identical piece of software to Microsoft Word”.
People will get around it saying no and open source alternatives will eventually be available anyway.
It’s really incredible what’s going to happen.