AI is not human. It doesn't have feelings, children, pupils, family, goals, ideals.
It's very different.
It's very different.
Then please bear with me and extend the comparison just a tiny bit.
Replace the AI with an advanced species from Mars. Or even better yet an augmented human ... a trans-human if you will.
Both the martian have kids, families, feelings, etc... AND both can absorb the entire internet in , say , a week or two. They are musicians and create new music from their internet experience.
Does their music belong to them?
Do they have to pay rights to all the authors they listened to so far on the internet?
And finally ... what is the difference between my martian and a human today?
This article isn't even a discussion on AI copyright ownership. It's about training.
What if an evil robot race came along and begin draining your Martians of all their history, expressions, and entertainment. Would the Martians not be within their rights to go "hey, don't do that"?
Parent edited rather than responded:
Your "martians" already did pay for the rights to access the music (streaming services, cds, etc)! And if it's highly derivative they'll continue to have to pay (royalties). OpenAI/Meta/Anthropic did not pay, that's the inherent issue. They took when they should not have had the right to access, and trained against it.
The question is not the difference between your mythical Martians and humans, its difference between your Martians and AI. Your martians, like humans, have lived experience. They have emotions, fears, beliefs. They have family, children, loved ones. This all affects how they would express themselves. An "AI" has none of this.