For example, the US and China are international and ideological competitors.

I think the exemption would be necessary to keep up with other nations who aren’t and will never be beholden to such laws.

So these companies are against what you call draconian, but you also disagree with these companies? Everyone here is so fucking short sighted, it’s insane to me.

Well, then we should see their want to change copyright in this way as a good thing. People complain when YouTubers get copyright struck even if their content is fair use or transformative of something else, but then suddenly become all about copyright when AI is mentioned.

The toothpaste is out of the tube. We can either develop it here and outpace our international and ideological competitors, or we can stifle ourselves and fall behind.

The future comes whether you want it to or not.

I find it odd that Lemmy users are so adverse to tech.

Sorry to say, but he’s right. For AI to truly flourish in the West, it needs access to all previously human made information and media.