real harm: erosion of intellectual property, as AI projects peruse works, including those with licenses and copyrights, without any regard to their license or copyright.
and before tech bros clap for "IP as a concept should be destroyed anyway", keep in mind that this applies to your favorite free and open source things as well, the free and open licenses, the CC licenses, that also get ignored and just put into the AI blender and spat out "brand new" with whatever "license" that AI project decides to slap on it. it is actually a huge problem if projects decide to just ignore licenses, even those that are meant to be there just to share stuff for free with people while preserving attribution, and just do whatever they want with any work they want.
I'd be interested to see a Venn Diagram of people saying "IP should be obsoleted" vs "How date Google train Bard off ChatGPT", I bet the overlap is larger than you'd expect.
and before tech bros clap for "IP as a concept should be destroyed anyway", keep in mind that this applies to your favorite free and open source things as well, the free and open licenses, the CC licenses, that also get ignored and just put into the AI blender and spat out "brand new" with whatever "license" that AI project decides to slap on it. it is actually a huge problem if projects decide to just ignore licenses, even those that are meant to be there just to share stuff for free with people while preserving attribution, and just do whatever they want with any work they want.