AI Opportunities Action Plan and the Creative Industries

"Reform the UK text and data mining regime so that it is at least as competitive as the EU. The current uncertainty around intellectual property (IP) is hindering innovation and undermining our broader ambitions for AI, as well as the growth of our creative industries." 

To me, this sounds like a relaxation of copyright law to enable AI companies to train their models on anything that is available online. AI can capture work far faster than a human can so this is like a chicken coop with a solid floor having one side completely open for a fox to enter! In this way an AI company can profit from learning from the copyrighted works without any compensation going to the original artist. 

But is it already too late? Surely the Genie is out of the bottle? You have to laugh at openAI complaining that DeepSeek has stolen the data that openAI has harvested from the internet. How ironic! You could argue that enforcing copyright law in the UK whilst the US is performing a hatchet job on all regulation is simply going to ensure that it is only foreign AI companies that get to profit from plagiarising original work. 

❓ What do you think?
❓ Is it too late? 
❓ How do you feel about this use of AI?