> I can go to the cinema and watch a movie, then come on this website and describe the whole plot. That isn't copyright infringement.
This is a false analogy. A correct one would be going to a 1000 movies and creating the 1001th movie with scenes cropped from these 1000 movies and assemble it as a new movie, and this is copyright infringement. I don't think any of the studios would applaud and support you for your creativity.
> But it is wrong-headed (and actually wrong in fact) to try to say someone may or may not use my content for some purpose because it hurts my feelings or it messes with my ad revenue.
Why does it have to be always about money? Personally it's not. I just don't want my work to be abused and sold to people to benefit a third party without my consent and will (and all my work is licensed appropriately for that).
> We should not have laws that say, yes you can read my site but no you can't use it to train an LLM, or to build a search index.
This goes both ways. If big corporations can scrape my material without asking me and resell it as an output of a model, I can equally distill their models further and sell it as my own. If companies can scrape my pages to sell my content as theirs, I can scrape theirs and unpaywall them.
But that will be copyright infringement, just because they have more money. What angers me is "all is fair game because you're a small fish, and this is a capitalist marketplace" mentality.
If companies can paywall their content to humans that don't pay, I can paywall AI companies and demand money or push them out of my lawn, just because I feel like that. The inverse is very unethical, but very capitalist, yes.
It's not always about money.
P.S.: Oh, try to claim that you can train a model with medical data without any clearance because it'd be unethical to have laws limiting this. It'll be fun. Believe me.