[charcircuit]

A web browser lets you easily commit copyright infringement by right clicking on a copyrighted image you do not have the rights to and selecting download.

It is also shockingly easy to do.

[nocoiner]

Please, leave my apes out of this.

[asadotzler]

downloading a copyrighted image is not a crime. downloading and then attempting to distribute that image probably is.

[charcircuit]

It is not a crime, but in the US you can be sued for $750 to $30000 per unique image downloaded.

[passwordoops]

I can't understand how people tie themselves into knots with non-equivalent whataboutism when it comes to these correlation black boxes.

The generative "AI" sports out an image it's owners claim is original. That's the infringement.

[sjfjsjdjwvwvc]

I would say it depends on the details. The generated image are clearly derivative and not pixel perfect recreations

[semiquaver]

How many pixels must be the same to qualify as copyright infringement?

[eru]

Almost no pixels are the same here.

(But neither do the pixels stay the same when you re-compress in JPG. So I'm not sure if Pixel sameness is a good metric?)

[sjfjsjdjwvwvc]

That is for a judge to decide probably