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I think you are giving the AI too much credit in being able to pull out the trademarked bits. Artists can introduce trademark iconography into their work as a poision pill. Sort of like GPL but with more powerful allies.

>>itroni+(OP)
I don't really believe that. An example: "Robot owl in the style of van Gogh".

This will closely mimic van Gogh's style but nobody cares because style cannot be copyrighted in itself. So it draws a robot owl, which for the sake of this example, is a new character.

Zero copyright violations.

My point remains that AI users aren't going to aim for output that directly looks like an existing character. These artists are now intentionally doing that for the sake of the protest but this is not how AI is used. It's used to create new works or far-derived works.

>>fleddr+i7
LOL. I am on midjourney discord and this really is how it's being used half of the time, paying users asking for existing characters.

>>itroni+(OP)
With this line of reasoning, I'd bet on a cat-and-mouse game between "poison pill"-removing AI generators and new tools and techniques for introducing the pill.