How are Modern Copyright laws helping authors, artists, and actors in those cases?

It's allowing them to sue OpenAI for copyright infringement:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jul/05/authors-file-a...

It's worth noting you can sue for just about anything, but a case could end up being dismissed or you could simply lose it.

That hasn't protected copywritten works in the past: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authors_Guild,_Inc._v._Google,....

Allowing them to block human intellectual progress may not be the long-term win you assume it is.

And some would argue that billion dollar companies like OpenAI, Meta etc should figure out a way to compensate the people who created the content they depend on.

Making the uncensored, unbiased, un-"aligned" results available to all for a fair price is compensation enough, I think. That's what we should be pushing for.

Whether demon or genie, any notion of putting this tech back in the bottle is a non-starter. As is turning it into a giant money grab for the copyright industry.