I can't think of a group of people less qualified and less informed to comment on the issues at hand except politicians. But like usual the weavers will get upset about mechanical looms. And these weavers have big enough money to rock the boat.
But they're up against multi-billion dollar companies, and the richest man in the world appointed by the US president to dismantle federal oversight.
In four years there will be yet another president. Probably even from a different party the way things are going. They know the system swings back and forth like that. These people have been working that system for over a hundred years now.
How do you think they got d@mn near a century IP protection on a fricken mouse? Who’s in power doesn’t matter to these people.
I do admit there are many quite informed and technically capable professional musicians but I doubt they'd support a law like this.
They are demanding to be informed.
AI just raises the level of abstraction and therefore the capabilities of an individual.
sampling machines don't give you a free pass to sample music all willy nilly, if you're going to publish the result for commercial gain you have to clear the sample, the original artist is getting royalties from it. This is something that was fought for and won by musicians: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Upright_Music,_Ltd._v._W....
(Not that you implied otherwise, I just want to point that out)
Except the mechanical loom folks are dependent on the IP of the weavers.
In other words, not a good analogy.
People like you can only see copyright infringement when it's blatantly staring you in the face, like Studio Ghibli style AI images. Why is it obvious in that case? Because we have a large enough preexisting sample of Studio Ghibli style frames from anime to make it obvious.
But move closer to zero-shot generation, which anyone with a modicum of knowledge on this subject understands was the directional impetus for generative AI development, and the monkey brain short circuits and suddenly creatives who want to protect their art can go fuck themselves, because money.
You may not find common cause with multi-millionaire artists trying to protect their work now, but you certainly will in hindsight if the only fiscally-sustainable engines of creativity left to us in the future are slop-vomiting AI models.