Yes, but the problem is that the authors of closed articles did sign a copyright transfer agreement (because they basically had no other option). Government cannot and should not override it against the will of the business companies. And this extends to the public.
For these closed articles it’s the authors’ burden to release the draft. That act is almost always permitted by the signed agreement.
I believe this should be allowed, honestly. For, it’s dangerous to disallow. I mean, there are dictatorships training their AIs, and they won’t care about copyrights. That’s gonna be an advantage for them, and the west should feed the same information.
We don’t need to allow Steven King, but scientific and engineering articles, sure.
OpenAI’s gonna redo the training.
That said, it’s concerning that dictatorships can feed more data to their AIs because they don’t care about ethics. At some point their AIs might outperform western ones.
Here comes an unpopular opinion, but for the greater good we might be eventually forced to allow those companies to feed everything.
AFAIU this is a result of the wording in the US constitution. The freedom of speech in the US has a stronger legal implication than in other countries, even stronger than western democracies like the UK.
And, then in the civilian level, as you say, US netizens tend to write “you are entitled to your opinion” to basically anybody with any horrible belief as if they were government officials.
I feared things can go bad since LogMeIn acquired Lastpass. However, I didn’t imagine things go actually THIS bad.