@AlisonCreekside And 20 years ago a million kids listened to Metallica, learned to play Enter Sandman badly and went and wrote their own stuff in time legally.

The real questions are not about using it, but then copying it and what degree of influence is copying. "AI" reading/listening to content is good, it's the same law and rights that lets you read content, lets search engines and screen readers work.

When it starts sharing, redistributing stuff well beyond "influenced by" it's a problem

@etchedpixels @AlisonCreekside Not comparable, as the AI parrot cannot write its own Enter Sandman-derived song. It will redistribute a mesh of stuff.

So, it technically is violating several licenses at the same time hoping to rip so many people at once that it becomes unfeasible to sue them. There is no-one to "influence" on AI.