There is always drift between intent and implementation, but to be generous here, Disney is generally making new works with their IP and so is Nintendo.

I am somewhat curious what you think shortening the copyright window would do that's so great for the culture though. We already have more than enough IP slop that's just licensed.

The point of IP is to encourage the creation of new things.

Not all protections have to be ones that give total control like copyright.

I think it's a mistaken assumption that costs will fall to zero. The low hanging fruit will get picked, and then we'll be doing expensive combined AI/wetlab search for new drugs.

If there is any meaningful headroom we will keep doing expensive things to make progress.

There clearly needs to be something in this space, but I can't imagine the world standardizing on a closed source system for this infra.

I know OSS business models are rough, but someone is going to solve this in open source and I think that is what will achieve traction.

This isn't really an argument for hiring junior folks though.

> they're just as capable as using AI as anyone

They're just as capable of typing prompts into AI, but what they don't have is good judgement of what good work/code looks like, so what's the point of asking a junior engineer to do something vs asking the LLM directly?