I agree with this in principle.
It was always the case with humans that some people were able to take other people’s work and monetize it much more effectively.
Instagram was built originally by a team of only a dozen or so people using a lot of open source libraries. Now it’s worth billions. Nothing was owed to the many contributors to those open source libraries.
Star Wars is arguably Tolkien in space, or at least heavily influenced by it at George Lucas’ own admission. Without Lord of the Rings there would be any Star Wars? I wonder who made more money, George Lucas or Tolkien?
Well Star Wars has made 10’s of Billions of dollars and Tolkien’s estate is worth half a Billion.
Similarity between the two is fair use?
And so LLMs could easily spew out guided me-toos of some other original concept and it would be fair game?
But there is one distinction and that is how efficiently they can copy and mimic and transform. It is now much easier to borrow multiple concepts and transform them into something which would not ordinarily infringe copyright.
I would say the current reach of copyright is highly debatable anyway.
It’s amazing to me that Jazz songs of the 1930’s and 40’s are still considered within copyright, and here we are nearly 100 years later!