[YurgenJurgensen]

Don’t mind me, I’m just going to ‘analyse’ this UHD movie and produce a 480p video file in a different codec whose bits are almost entirely unlike those in the original and throws out almost all the information from the original. I’ll put it on a RAID array with thousands of others, mangling the bits of the ‘analysis’ even further. The right ‘prompt’ may cause the model to produce some imagery very similar to some of its ‘training data’ however.

You can use whatever weasel words you want, but bits go in and fewer derivative bits come out in both cases.

[ronsor]

This is a strawman.

The purpose of video codecs is to reproduce the original video. If you do that, it's copyright infringement.

AI models should not reproduce the original images. The output will not be something that already exists.

Purpose and intent matters.

[YurgenJurgensen]

You’re right, purpose and intent matters, and the intent is to profit from the work of others without their permission and without crediting or compensating them in any way.