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Yup, though a lot of people are acting now as though every already-established principle of fair use needs to be revised suddenly by adding a bunch of "...but if this is done by any form of AI, then it's copyright infringement."

A cover band who plays Beatles songs = great An artist who paints you a picture in the style of so-and-so = great

An AI who is trained on Beatles songs and can write new ones = exploitative, stealing, etc. An AI who paints you a picture in the style of so-and-so = get the pitchforks, Big Tech wants to kill art!



> A cover band who plays Beatles songs

Has to pay the Beatles for the pleasure of doing so.


This discussion about art "in the style of" being stealing or exploitative hasn't started with AI. For quite some time there has been complaints of advertisements commissioning sound-alike tunes to avoid paying licensing. AI is only automating it and making it possible in an industrial scale.




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