[grork]

I’m assuming the type foundry legal departments are getting ready to come for the image generators when they find out their typefaces have been vacuumed up and are now generating new content without licensing the typeface for use?

[kelseyfrog]

> In the United States, the shapes of typefaces are not eligible for copyright but may be protected by design patent.

In the US only the font files themselves are copyrightable. It would be a difficult case to make that the model weights, or output bears any copyright-violating relation to the font files.