[Y-bar]

Putting aside the fact that what we call AI today is not learning in the same way as humans. They operate on a VASTLY different scale compared to humans. On a good week I can read a book. A single book. A massively parallelised data centre can do that billions or trillions of times faster. Scale of effect (lacking a better phrase) must be considered.

a rack of equipment does not need to sleep, eat, take care of themselves, earn a living and so on while churning through millions of words a minute. An actual thinking and learning person has to choose what to spend their limited time and money and attention on, while reading at a pace of dozens of words a minute. Those are not the same things at all.

[TheOtherHobbes]

More than that, AI-generated work is clearly derivative for the simple obvious reason that none of it would exist without the original sources.

[infotainment]

I mean, by that logic every fantasy story ever is a derivative work. Should everyone be paying JRR Tolkein's estate royalties the moment they include elves in a story?

[dragonwriter]

That's... not the legal definition of a derivative work.