Patreon CEO calls AI companies’ fair use argument ‘bogus,’ says creators should be paid

Conte's right about the argument being weak, but his solution won't stick. Here's the thing—AI companies' fair use defense is getting shredded in court because they're clearly copying at scale to replace the original. That's not fair use, that's competition by copying. Conte's correct.

But "pay creators" sounds nice until you realize the logistics are impossible—you'd need micropayment systems that don't exist, and creators would get pennies. The real solution is regulation that just bans training on copyrighted content without license. That's less fun to argue about, but it's the only thing that actually sticks.