[xp84]

Yup, though a lot of people are acting now as though every already-established principle of fair use needs to be revised suddenly by adding a bunch of "...but if this is done by any form of AI, then it's copyright infringement."

A cover band who plays Beatles songs = great An artist who paints you a picture in the style of so-and-so = great

An AI who is trained on Beatles songs and can write new ones = exploitative, stealing, etc. An AI who paints you a picture in the style of so-and-so = get the pitchforks, Big Tech wants to kill art!

[blitzar]

> A cover band who plays Beatles songs

Has to pay the Beatles for the pleasure of doing so.

[whstl]

This discussion about art "in the style of" being stealing or exploitative hasn't started with AI. For quite some time there has been complaints of advertisements commissioning sound-alike tunes to avoid paying licensing. AI is only automating it and making it possible in an industrial scale.