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The problem is that increasing the overreach of copyright further like that is bad for everyone and does nothing to curtail the actual problems of AI generation.

The problem of AI content generation is that it's an infinite vapid slop factory that spouts gibberish forever and without any sort of sanity checking, and whether it correctly paid the corporate owners of the various platforms the generators' creators scraped or not is irrelevant. All that achieving "you must acquire an explicit license to authorize AI training on a given body of data" means is that a bunch of oligarch ghouls get a payday and the AI is only trained on corporate owned data by big AI corporations that can work out deals with them (or you get a bunch of in-house shit like how they all want their own streaming services).

The only solution is to make AI generated content a poison pill for copyright in general, regardless of whether that "makes sense" or "has precedent": any work that contains generative AI content becomes uncopyrightable and all licenses attached to it become public domain. Protect silly hobbyist work while harshly punishing corporate use.

To put it bluntly, if something like DisneyExtraGeneratorAI makes a crowd scene it doesn't matter if it made them from scraping stock photos or by paying Disney adults in ride fastpass priority and a coupon for a slightly discounted $1000 cocktail at their resort for some full body scans, the problem isn't the licensing it's the fact that they're replacing actors and getting an engine they can further profit from by licensing. It's a new sort of enclosure whether they're paying to do it or not, and the only way to stop it is to make it impossible to profit from using.