oh for fuck’s sake

It’s a legally still unsettled question in most jurisdictions whether AI crawling and training requires permission from the copyright holders of the source works at all. If the answer to that question is “no”, then the entire idea of wanting to use copyright law (and copyright licenses) to block AI crawling and training doesn’t work at all.

I do not think we should want the answer to that question to be “yes”. Why would anyone want copyright law to impose more restrictions than it does anyway? The trend should be toward fewer copyright restrictions.

I am not at all a fan of the current AI hype, but I am even less of a fan of wanting copyright law to be more restrictive or to be construed that way.