Enabling millions of people to jump traditional entry barriers is a good thing

False :( look how bad Google search has gotten, overrun by AI blogposts and advertising slop. Enabling millions of people to jump traditional entry barriers dilutes the hard, real, work that people do.

But more to the point, the genie is out of the bottle, and no amount of objection is going to stuff it back in.

We regulated the assembly line and gave laborers compensation and safety rights when power tools increased their capacity. So too, we could force OpenAI et al to compensate the copyright holders from whom they scraped data. No one is calling for the genie to got back in, only for the capitalists to stop being the ones with all the wishes.