As I understand it (#NotALawyer) the law makes a distinction between selling a toolkit, which has many legal uses and can also help you steal cars, and selling a toolkit with advertising about how good it is for stealing cars and helpful instructions on how to use it to do so. Some of the AI image generation models included single joined_by_underscores keywords for the names of artists (who hadn’t consented to being included) to reproduce their style, and instructions on how to do that. With the wrong rest of the prompt, that would sometimes even reproduce a near-copy of a single artwork by that artist from the training set. We’ll see how that court case goes. (My understanding is that a style is not considered copyrightable but a specific image or a sufficient number of elements from it is.)
Sooner or later, we’ll have robots that are physically and mentally capable of stealing a car all by themselves, if that would help them fulfill an otherwise-legal instruction from their owner. The law is going to hold someone responsible for ensuring that the robots don’t do that: some combination of the manufacturer and the owner/end-user, according to which seems more reasonable to the judge and jury.
As I understand it (#NotALawyer) the law makes a distinction between selling a toolkit, which has many legal uses and can also help you steal cars, and selling a toolkit with advertising about how good it is for stealing cars and helpful instructions on how to use it to do so. Some of the AI image generation models included single joined_by_underscores keywords for the names of artists (who hadn’t consented to being included) to reproduce their style, and instructions on how to do that. With the wrong rest of the prompt, that would sometimes even reproduce a near-copy of a single artwork by that artist from the training set. We’ll see how that court case goes. (My understanding is that a style is not considered copyrightable but a specific image or a sufficient number of elements from it is.)
Sooner or later, we’ll have robots that are physically and mentally capable of stealing a car all by themselves, if that would help them fulfill an otherwise-legal instruction from their owner. The law is going to hold someone responsible for ensuring that the robots don’t do that: some combination of the manufacturer and the owner/end-user, according to which seems more reasonable to the judge and jury.