> A human artist looks at a lot of different sources, builds up a black-box statistical model of how to create from that and can reproduce other styles on demand based on a few samples. Generative AI follows the same process.
The reason programs are different in front of the law is that humans can program programs to do whatever they like at scale, humans can't program humans to do whatever they like at scale.
So for example if it became legal to use images from an AI, then we would program an AI that basically copies images and it would be legal, because it is an AI. But at that point we know the law has been violated because programs that just copies images aren't a legal way to get copyrighted images for free.
You saying "But the AI is a black box" just means that you could have hidden anything in there, it doesn't prove anything. Legally it is the same as if you wrote a program to copy images.
The reason programs are different in front of the law is that humans can program programs to do whatever they like at scale, humans can't program humans to do whatever they like at scale.
So for example if it became legal to use images from an AI, then we would program an AI that basically copies images and it would be legal, because it is an AI. But at that point we know the law has been violated because programs that just copies images aren't a legal way to get copyrighted images for free.
You saying "But the AI is a black box" just means that you could have hidden anything in there, it doesn't prove anything. Legally it is the same as if you wrote a program to copy images.