Creation happened before intellectual property laws existed.

Creation happens that can be immediately copied with no compensation now, open source software is an example.

How many authors do you think would have written the books they did, if they weren't able to make a living from their work? Most of the people creating works before copyright either had a patron of some description, or outright worked for an organisation.

You know that for the vast majority of human history copyright didn't exist, and yet people still created art and culture, right?

edit: If you're gonna downvote, have the balls to explain how I'm wrong.

The specific works? Who knows. It's irrelevant

My point is your original premise was wrong. Creation DID happen without IP laws. People DO create with out the need for compensation/copy protection.

I propose, people will create things because they always have.

How tf did this Ponze Scheme even get as far as the UK Prime Minister's desk?

It's not a Ponzi scheme. Just because you don't like it doesn't mean it's a scam and even if it was a scam that wouldn't be the type of scam that it was.

Absolute worst you could call it is false advertising, because AI does actually work just not very well.

Yup. I don't think training should be considered breaking copyright. Regurgitating though should.

There are examples of use cases besides the right now obvious one of LLMs "creating" "original" content.

One that comes to my mind is indexing books. Allowing for people to search for books based on a description.

I like how their whole excuse to that was "WE DIDN'T SEED ANY OF IT BACK THOUGH" which arguably makes it even worse lol.

should start up our own ai company anyone is free to join

The original copyright law was created to protect authors from publishers. The current law is an abomination and should be removed.

It's never the grandkids. The Beatles sold the rights to their songs.

Thank you, I tried to condense it and may have condensed a little too hard aha

You're probably right, but saying we should abolish it altogether is insane. There's a good reason we have these laws.

Downloading is still infringement. Distribution is worse, but I don't think it's a criminal matter, still just civil.

I identify as an AI company ️

They are just illegally selling us off as slaves. That is what is happening. All our fault for not having strong citizen watchdogs, clamping down on this behavior.

AI really shows the absurdity of intellectual property as a concept, the very way we learn, every idea we can have, every mental image we can create is the sum of copying and adapting the things we perceive and ideas that have predated our own, you can see this from the earliest forms of art where simple shapes and patterns were transmuted and adapted into increasingly complex ones or through the influence of old innovations into new ones, for example the influence of automatons on weaving looms with punched pegs and their influence on babbage machines and eventually computers. IP is ontological incoherent for this reason you cannot "own" an idea so much as you can own the water of one part of a stream

Maybe in some weird countries.

There are no good reasons.