Because, as the article goes on to say, the problem isn't that genAI repeats copyrighted material. Rather, its automation and massive scale upends the labor incentives that copyright is intended to provide, in a way that a human synthesizing knowledge from multiple sources can't.
In other words, it doesn't really matter whether ChatGPT or Bing Chat or DALL-E are tweaked so that they no longer violate the letter of copyright law, if they deprive -- at scale -- all their data sources of the views, recognition, and revenue that incentivize them to go gather and produce this valuable data in the first place. Why bother researching and writing an article if you're never going to get any pageviews for it, because Google places your main point atop the search results page?
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Because, as the article goes on to say, the problem isn't that genAI repeats copyrighted material. Rather, its automation and massive scale upends the labor incentives that copyright is intended to provide, in a way that a human synthesizing knowledge from multiple sources can't.
In other words, it doesn't really matter whether ChatGPT or Bing Chat or DALL-E are tweaked so that they no longer violate the letter of copyright law, if they deprive -- at scale -- all their data sources of the views, recognition, and revenue that incentivize them to go gather and produce this valuable data in the first place. Why bother researching and writing an article if you're never going to get any pageviews for it, because Google places your main point atop the search results page?