I think it’s a mistake/fallacy to equate the human acquisition of knowledge and resulting synthesis of value with that of large-scale computers ingesting the sum total of written human knowledge and the outcomes that enables.
They are not similar, and I suspect that if they were (i.e. humans could absorb that much information), the information landscape and the market models for exchanging value would look nothing like they do today, and AI wouldn’t be rocking the boat, it’d just be another adherent to the resulting laws.
That's one thing I'm consistently surprised HN fails to draw a distinction on: copyright regimes are fundamentally about copy rate.
You can't take a regime that works decently with human-rate copying and convert it to computer-rate copying, because fundamentally the give-and-take of rights to each side is balanced against feasible limits of reproduction.
Or, to put it another way, if you can copy/synthesize at most 1 book a day, I can extend you a lot more implicit rights... than I can afford to someone who can copy/synthesize every book ever in a day.
They are not similar, and I suspect that if they were (i.e. humans could absorb that much information), the information landscape and the market models for exchanging value would look nothing like they do today, and AI wouldn’t be rocking the boat, it’d just be another adherent to the resulting laws.