In general it’s okay for a person to look at a dozen different paintings and then make a new painting that’s kind of like those paintings. This seems pretty analogous to what AI is doing and I’m not sure why it becomes not OK if it’s done by a corporation training an AI model. Perhaps there are specific violations of IP laws, and those can be discussed (and some of them are being adjudicated in court as we speak), and of course there is a separate question of whether those IP laws are just. However, what AI models doing to me seems mostly like it’s the sort of behavior we would be OK with individual people doing: i.e closer to the remixing/synthesizing end of the spectrum than the copying/”stealing” end.
In general it’s okay for a person to look at a dozen different paintings and then make a new painting that’s kind of like those paintings. This seems pretty analogous to what AI is doing and I’m not sure why it becomes not OK if it’s done by a corporation training an AI model. Perhaps there are specific violations of IP laws, and those can be discussed (and some of them are being adjudicated in court as we speak), and of course there is a separate question of whether those IP laws are just. However, what AI models doing to me seems mostly like it’s the sort of behavior we would be OK with individual people doing: i.e closer to the remixing/synthesizing end of the spectrum than the copying/”stealing” end.