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It really bothers me how normalized the "screw everyone else, I want to get paid!" Attitude has become. OP is just assuming that everyone agrees with it. I want AI to be well trained. If self-interest must be assumed then consider how useful AI is for you.
And copyright doesn't even apply here in any event. Training an AI is not copying, it is learning.
I think a lot of the concern here, for me if noone else, is them taking the data and then turning it around into a closed for-sale product. If AI is going to be trained, it should be trained well, but if the result of doing so is them turning around and charging [me/us/everyone, as applicable] an ass load for the privilege of its use then I want no part of it.
AI trained on public data should be public. So if adding boilerplate is the solution to this problem, let it be infectious licensing which forces opening of the resultant model to the public.
Even private for-pay AI is useful to me. Even ones I don't pay for myself, since other AI developers have been making heavy use of existing AI models to generate data for training their own new models.
In any event, as I said, copyright doesn't even apply here. Adding a CC license does nothing, it's not "infectious" to AI models trained off of it.
Yeah, CC doesn't cover it in any case. Any attempt would probably need some sort of bespoke license to specifically target the training use case while still allowing comments to be used like normal.
And a Microsoft-sized pile of money to fight it out in court.
If copyright doesn't apply to AI training, then no license of any sort will "work" because the trainers could simply refuse it.
Copyleft works because if you refuse the license you're left with no rights to use the work in question. But if you don't need copyright permission to train, that's fine.