[AnthonyMouse]

> I can see this going the route of us having a Disney AI, Sony AI, Discovery AI, Amazon AI, etc. where you can generate stuff using models owned by the studios, but only those studios and any public domain stuff they suck in too.

As entertaining as it would be to have a model where you type "photo of an astronaut riding a horse" and it defaults to Buzz Lightyear riding the horse from Tangled, that's not really what people use these models for in the main.

You don't actually want derivative works. The interesting training data isn't Hollywood movies, it's all the junk people post on social media. What you want is thousands of generic pictures of astronauts and thousands of generic pictures of horses. Pictures of Tom Hanks as Jim Lovell aren't any better (and may actually be worse) than actual public domain photos from NASA.

[wodenokoto]

Almost all my test queries have been “homer Simpson eating a donut”

I think the vast majority of this is going to replace google image search, the way it replaced clip-art