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Comment by ixaxaar | Hacker News Reader

I guess whoever tries to enforce copyright at this point ends up losing in the AI race. On the other hand, countries like Japan have literally chosen to be the Cayman Islands of AI. I wonder how countries with a stronger foundation of copyright are going to navigate this conundrum against middle-income countries which have a stronger incentive to be ambiguous on this issue.

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They're probably going to make the WTO enforce against countries with more liberal copyright regimes, but it must be said they'll need to crack on if they want to do so and several of the larger economies are politically gridlocked at this point in making any decisions at all.

It is atypical for issues that affect elite bottom lines to be subject to political gridlock.

The gridlock is simply the manifested reality that legislation is fully pay to play, but if you're paying that's not your problem.

People keep saying this about Japan here on HN, but the one article circulating is a random minister saying she supports AIs training for educational/statistical purposes, not an actual passage of new laws or anything of the sort.

Please do correct me if I'm wrong though

You are right in this. It seems they're also in the process of figuring it out.

"... countries like Japan have literally chosen to be the Cayman Islands of AI."

No.

Japan has figuratively chosen to be the Cayman Islands of AI.

(I have five figures of karma with which to fight this battle)

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