Microsoft 365 Copilot: Wave 2 AMA

Copilot and all other AI systems pose an existential crisis to creative writers like me. I'm an author of science fiction books, but I could soon be replaced by AI generated stories that are little more than regurgitated intellectual property, stolen from me and every other human author. My trade organization, the Science Fiction Writers Association, has written a detailed letter to the US Copyright Office on this danger (read it https://www.sfwa.org/2023/11/03/sfwa-comments-on-ai-to-us-copyright-office/). I'm especially concerned about Microsoft incorporating AI into writing tools like Microsoft Word, which I use daily to write my books. If my copyrighted work is sucked into an AI tool without my consent, this would be a grave copyright infringement. How can authors be absolutely sure that this will not happen? As SFWA notes in their letter to the USCO: "We recommend requiring proof of license or legal right to all training data before any AI-generated work based on that data can be incorporated into a copyright registration." It is not enough for a CEO to say, "we don't use copyrighted material". Use of Copilot to generate text should require proof of the legal right to that specific text.