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They are copying your intellectual property and digitizing its knowledge. It’s a bit different as it’s PERMANENT. With humans knowledge can be lost, forgotten, or ignored. In these LLMs that’s not an option. Also the skill factor is a big issue imo. It’s very easy to setup an LLM to make AI imagery nowadays.

Because there's not enough PD content there to train AI on.

Copyright law is generally (yes I know this varies country by country but) gives the creator immediate ownership without any further requirements, which means every doodle, shitpost and hot take online is property of it's owner UNLESS they chose to license it in a way that would allow use.

Nobody does, and thus the data the AI needs simply doesn't exist as PD content and that makes the only choices for someone training a model is either to steal everything, or don't do it.

You can see what choice has been universally made.

Simply refer to the sources you used

Source: The Internet.

Most things are duplicated thousands of times on the Internet. So stating sources would very quickly become a bigger text than almost any answer from an AI.

But even disregarding that, as an example: Stating that you scraped republican and democrat home sites on a general publicly available site documenting the AI, does not explain which if any was used for answering a political question.

Your proposal sounds simple, but is probably extremely hard to implement in a useful way.

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It would cost more in time and effort to do it right.