[3000000001]

This is exactly my thinking. If the court finds somebody guilty of infringing on a human-made piece of digital art the response is to punish the human, not to ban or impose limits on photoshop.

At risk of stretching the analogy, you don’t charge the gun with murder…

[chakalakasp]

Except, of course, the human has very little control over what the AI outputs in TXT2TXT scenarios, at least in terms of whether the output would match the definition of copyright infringement of someone else's work. IMG2TXT is kinda different -- I think you could make a much stronger case for derivative work there. So you have a tool that can randomly create massive liability for you, and you can't know if its done so or not until someone sues you.

[mannykannot]

The humans are the cause of it happening in the first place. Maybe the gun analogy is not such a stretch: if you pull the trigger, you own the consequences.

Reasonable fair use principles could distinguish personal and R&D use from commercial use.