| > For example, we can't download entire libraries of books instantly to our brains and then reproduce those books word for word in memory. Yeah. Nobody's talking about word-for-word duplication here. > If a human was to reproduce a copyrighted book word for word... Again? > Even if a human paraphrases another work they can still be found guilty of plagiarism if the paraphrase is still overly similar to the original source material. Go look up the dictionary definition of plagiarism. Notice the most crucial element, which you seem to have omitted here, and also notice that it's irrelevant to AI systems, which overtly acknowledge that they exist to generate derivative works. > If I steal a stock image without paying for a license Here's another version of your "word-for-word" analogy, which nobody else is talking about. > I personally think it would be fair for an artist or author to say their work was not licensed to be used in training a neural net or otherwise request to opt out. I am genuinely curious: how do you propose to enforce this? |