[briandoyle81]

Yeah, the impact of AI is challenging too.

On the one hand from a technical perspective it's probably some sort of theft, but I don't think we meaningfully have the vocabulary, technology, or laws to address what it does.

Is an AI making images in the style of Studio Ghibli problematic? Probably. But copyright law already allows for some level of permissionless use. If you take a photograph of something, you can sell it without needing to find the owner of the rights for the wineglass the model is holding.

If the result of an AIs work is a tiny percentage of the work of a thousand artists, musicians, or programmers, where's the threshold where it owes someone something.