Copyright, for better or worse, has the intent of compensating authors and creators for their work, and not letting it get used without permission. AI seems like it will be really, really harmful to that intent. So why should we throw away copyright laws so that Google and other big players can dominate content creation? And don't forget that many open source software licenses are built on copyright.

Even outside of these concerns, Google is just hand-waving over the question of whether Google harvesting content for AI is a good thing at all, for anyone other than Google. The fact that they are raising the issue makes me suspect that they have already done this harvesting and are now figuring out their legal liability in different markets.

What? Someone had to say it...