It's very amusing to hear this particular argument being made to defend AI companies.

When the people want that, it's inconsequential.

When the corporations did that, it was their God-given right.

I don’t agree, what people want is very consequential, because those people are paying customers of a service, if they aren’t happy with it they have every right to complain.

People should be vocal about what they do and do not think is reasonable behavior by corporations and then act based on those opinions with their wallets. Lord knows we have precious few other ways of influencing corporate behavior.

No, it's important. People are allowed to discourage each other from buying a product that they consider subpar.

>What the people want is inconsequential here. The people also want to abolish copyright and freely share and download media too.

I already approved of the complaints against Anthropic here, you don't have to sell it this hard to me.

(Not to mention the blatant hypocrisy that their whole business is based on open copyright abuse - all that copyrighted training material, illegally obtained books and movies, etc).