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If piracy underpins AI development, it leaves the door open for anyone to torrent copyrighted content and claim to be building AI systems. Such a loophole could lead to widespread unauthorized data harvesting, undermining creator rights at a fundamental level.
The Threat to Human Creativity and Economic Ownership
One of the most pressing concerns is that AI systems trained on human-created works could eventually replace human creators altogether. Art, music, literature, and even scientific innovations could be generated by machines, leaving creators uncompensated. Currently, copyright law is based on the idea that copying competes directly with the original work—yet AI blurs this line by producing infinite variations inspired by copyrighted works without necessarily infringing.