I don’t think it’s actually such a bad argument because to reject it you basically have to say that style should fall under copyright protections, at least conditionally, which is absurd and has obvious dystopian implications. This isn’t what copyright was meant for. People want AI banned or inhibited for separate reasons and hope the copyright argument is a path to that, but even if successful wouldn’t actually change much except to make the other large corporations that own most copyright stakeholders of AI systems. That’s not really a better circumstance.

If/when it does get big enough, what would be a good solution? It would be possible to do the same as Reddit

https://youtu.be/nS9QtzGwBcc simple enough that maybe it won’t get annoying

Would it be technically infeasible for their servers to only handle their own stuff, but where responses to it could still be made externally, viewable depending on what you federate with?

a website that ostensibly prides itself on giving its users and communities a platform for free speech

lol come on now