Will AI Finally Be Able To Scuttle That Pesky Copyright Thing?

(Update: There is an article today on The Verge entitled "Elon Musk’s Apparent Power Play at the Copyright Office Completely Backfired: Ripping off content to train AI wasn't going to fly with either MAGA populists or MAGA media". So while there is absolutely still no reason given to fire the director who is most qualified to guide the Copyright Office on matters of AI, the end result is up in the air, and I remain skeptical, as given in the example of Meta that just gobbled up millions of books for AI, without permission from the authors or publishers.)

Why was the Director of the Copyright Office suddenly fired? Was it because AI companies didn't like what was in the preliminary Copyright Office report on AI and Fair Use? That they want creators' works and compositions, ignoring the recommendation of the report (and the Constitution), to be free to feed their AI models?

"If tech companies can pillage and plunder people’s creative work so they can make money for themselves and their friends, then it will destroy whole creative industries,” (Reid Southen, concept artist and illustrator)

Once that door is flung open for AI to gobble up all human creativity without a care about the human creators, there is no putting it all back.