Shashir Mehrotra
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I mean, frankly speaking, the pace of innovation in that category is so high that in the profits being generated there are so high that, no, it hasn't mattered to the upstream users, to us, to ChatGPT users, Gemini users, so on.
It hasn't stopped their growth at all.
Will it someday?
Maybe.
I don't know.
But my point was more in this world of, like,
Output copyright is fairly clear.
Law covers it pretty well.
Input copyright is not that clear.
And it's not clear for good reason, right?
If you're a human and you read a book and then you learn something and you talk about that thing, what should happen?
And that's a legitimate question that hasn't been well tested in the courts.
I don't think the industry is going to take that cost and just pass it along to all users.
But we'll see.
If it does, then it does.
We'll have to deal with it.
Everybody will.
I understand that is a very fair argument that this is not the same as a human reading the book.
And obviously, that's the line being taken there.
I would postulate that whatever way that case ends up, the correct answer for experts is it's time for a new business model.