Noticed some AI evangelists try with the same kind of fake centrism, that was pretty popular during the Gamergate era. In this case, they try to set up people spamming genAI slop against “fanatical anti-AI people”. But just as many loves to pretend moderates are “far-left”, as their past-Gamergate selves pretended Anita Sarkeesian demanded state censorship of sexist videogames, as they are now pretending Hasan Piker is the most radical leftist living today (there are much worse even within the content creator sphere, such as Badempanda) to illustrate the “horseshoe theory”, the table is tilted in favor of AI adoption.
Your point about copyright is similar to one i keep coming back to. The data centers are already a huge cost sink, especially when you consider the rate their hardware will need to be upgraded/replaced over time. If you make them pay royalties to copyright holders whose material they constantly reproduce, pay a team of people to manage that inventory of works and authors, etc… The operating cost skyrockets. I see a regulation like this as being something of a nail in the coffin for AI. But I’m also a cynic and I don’t see a fascist nation like the US siding with the little guy artists against the tech giants who paid for their election.