I feel the emotionally charged nature of the topic prevents a lot of rational discussion from taking place. That's totally understandable too, it's the livelihood for some of those involved. Unless we start making specific regulations for Generative AI, current copyright law is pretty clear: you can't call your art a Picasso, but you can certainly say it was inspired by Picasso. The difference is that GAI can do it much faster and cheaper. The best middle ground in my opinion is to allow GAI to train on copyrighted data, but the output cannot be copyrighted, and the model weights creating it can't be copyrighted either. Any works modified by a human attempting to gain copyright protection should have to fulfill the requirements to be substantiative and transformative just as fair use requires now.