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If I upload a movie clip to YouTube, I get a copyright strike within hours. If I burn a copy of an album for a friend, I'm a pirate. But AI companies can feed millions of books, songs, articles, and photos into a model, and it's called "training." The artists, writers, and photographers whose work went in weren't asked and weren't paid. Courts are still sorting out whether that counts as fair use, and so far the rulings are mixed. But watching it play out, I can't shake one question. When an individual copies something, it's theft. When a trillion-dollar company does it at scale, it's innovation. Same material. Different size of bank account.