Regardless, the human generating and publishing these images is obviously responsible to ensure they are not violating any IP property. So they might get sued by Disney. I don't get why the AI companies would be effected in any way. Disney is not suing Blender if I render an image of Mickey Mouse with it.
Though I am sure that artists might find an likely ally in Disney against the "AI"'s when they tell them about their idea of making art-styles copyright-able Being able to monopolize art styles would be indeed a dream come true for those huge corporations.
Mind you, this is not talking about the usage rights of images generated from such a model, that's a completely different story and a legal one.
hear hear...
> Passively training a model on an artwork does not change the art in the slightest
copyright holders, I mean individual authors, people who actually produced the content being used, disagree.
They say AI is like a bulldozer destroying the park to them.
Which technically is true, it's a machine that someone (some interested party maybe?) is trying to disguise as a human, doing human stuff.
But it's not.
> passive, non-destructive
Passive, non-destructive, in this context means
- passive: people send the images to you, you don't go looking for them
- non-destructive: people authorized you, otherwise it's destructive of their rights.