[wnkrshm]

how much do the weights have to change for it to be transformative? Edit: you arrive at the same question as taking an image with img2img and running it through a diffusion variant - keeping the composition, colors etc. but no the details

[banana_feather]

Much of the case law about the "transformative" factor focuses on "new meaning or expression", but it's about visual art, which is generally very difficult to reason about w.r.t. copyright. I think the example to look to for technology is Authors Guild v. Google, where "transformative" is more about non-expressive purpose, and it was considered transformative to copy a bunch of books to produce a search functionality, since the search functionality (which only displayed snippets) was a transformative purpose compared to the underlying creative expression in the books.