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...

The fact is, eBay shouldn't be held responsible for the actions of the users, any more than the local grocery store should be held liable if people post fraudulent sales on their cork boards near the entrances.

...except that if ebay is making money off of fraudulent sellers, and then looking the other way despite all the "tough on fraud" policies, then they are participating in fraud themselves (I'm not a lawyer, etc...)