So you'd prefer that only rich megacorporations and criminals have access to this technology, and not normal people and researchers?
Why not? I don’t think normal people have very many good uses for deepfake tech.
The studios did already rip off Mark Hamill of all people.
Arguing regulatory capture versus overt piracy is a ridiculous premise. The "AI" firms have so much liquid capital now... they could pay the fines indefinitely in districts that constrain damages, and already settled with larger copyright holders like it was just another nuisance fee. =3
How is that surprising? The advent of modern AI tools has resulted in most people being heavily pro-IP. Everyone now talks about who has the copyright to something and so on.