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The NFT. It's a digital asset you supposedly own, even though it's only on the Internet. And though you might be satisfied that you're the only one who owns it "officially" within the context of the ledger/whatever game this NFT is a part of, I can look at that thing and copy that thing and do everything with that thing except "own it within the context of the ledger." And I think most people would say "That's fine. Screenshot those NFTs. Let them know that digital ownership means nothing."

The text-to-image AI. You know how they train these things? They copy other people's artwork and feed it into the mind of the AI. And so egregious is this, this new Lensa app can't even scrub the artist signatures off of the images it produces. And most people are saying "Well that's not fair, you're copying other people's work you found on the Internet." But I think proponents might then throw the NFT argument at that: We didn't "steal" anything, all we did was "look at" something on the Internet and "remember" it. You have no jurisdiction to stop us from doing that.

These are the kinds of things we said before Napster and YouTube. Before we imagined that music and video could be redistributed to "large" audiences. And because those things came along, we had to come up with new rules. Between NFTs and AI, you think we're gonna have to come up with new rules?