What people don't seem to realize about the lawsuit battles between artists and AI is that in 30 years, no one will care.
We are the only generation of artists who entered the art industry before AI became good, then witnessed the tech becoming good enough to disrupt that industry.
In the pre-AI world, one might've seen or heard a piece of art or music, then thought, "I want to dedicate my life to learning how to make something that good". This thought was not predicated on the knowledge that in 30 years a technology would be able to make something approximately or almost that good in 30 seconds rather than 5 months. And we are the last people on Earth to experience that rug pull, because our children and grand-children will NOT have that issue because generative AI will have always existed to them. Going forward, anyone going into the arts already knows what they're getting into, are happy to create it in spite of the technology existing (or uses it to create what they want), and hence will not be motivated to legislate against it.
