Commercial parody is commonplace fair use. If it surpasses the original… oh well.

The amount being used becomes negligible as the corpus grows. Filtering a billion webpages into one gigabyte means their average contribution is one byte. Play with the numbers all you like, it’s gonna come out to less than a paragraph.

If we went full copyright maximalist, and criminally banned using anything but public-domain / BSD / CC0 works, the commercial impact would not be much different. The technology itself shifts the economics of text, images, video, and code.

Quoting one sentence from a book is fair use even if you shoplifted that book.

Genuinely surprised it’s even opt-out.

These companies train on Disney DVDs. Permission is not a factor. Training is transformative use, as much for counting letter frequency as for building a chatbot that can sort of code.

(and do your best to ignore angry gamers yelling that you are greedy)

No, listen to those people. They’re right. Fuck microtransactions. Nothing inside a video game should cost real money.

Also the distributor cut is fucking obscene and needs to be sharply reduced. Steam takes an entire third of your revenue, clean off the top, for the privilege of participating in their monopoly.