[shon]

Yes that is the more interesting question and the answer is most probably yes, especially as these systems are trained on billions/trillions of samples from the net. But, due to the opaqueness of how these models really work, it might be very hard or impossible to prove a claim like that, unless the resulting work is an obvious copy of prior art.

[0thgen]

if the models are too opaque to give appropriately weighted credit to all parties involved in the dataset the model learned from, would that make it reasonable to just push all AI generated inventions to the public domain?

(at least in regards to black box models)