I think my main point here is that “legal” does not imply moral or acceptable to society, and our understanding of the technical legal status is not a prerequisite for exploring those factors, which may be the thing that changes the legal status in response to the major shift in landscape.
You risk nothing by assuming things are legal until explicitly illegal.
More interesting is the broader conversation which involves society’s response to a major shift in the information economy, new questions about what role these tools should play, and how laws should evolve accordingly.
The factors surrounding the emergence/unfolding of AI tooling can’t be stripped down to just the corporate interests involved.
