Comment by throw10920

> The flip side is: knowledge is not (and should not be!) copyrightable.

Irrelevant. Books and media are not pure knowledge, and those are what is being discussed here, not knowledge.

> Anyone can read your articles and use the knowledge it contains, without paying or crediting you.

Completely irrelevant. AI are categorically different than humans. This is not a valid comparison to make.

This is also a dishonest comparison, because there's a difference between you voluntarily publishing an article for free on the internet (which doesn't even mean that you're giving consent to train on your content), and you offering a paid book online that you have to purchase.

> AI should be allowed to read repair manuals and use them to fix cars.

Yes, after the AI trainers have paid for the repair manuals at the rate that the publishers demand, in exactly the same way that you have to pay for those manuals before using them.

Of course, because AI can then leverage that knowledge at a scale orders of magnitude greater than a human, the cost should be orders of magnitude higher, too.