> One might argue that artists take inspiration from other artists to make the argument that what the AI is doing is fine.
This doesn't seem to address what I took to be the relevant part of IP law - that non-human authors don't create copyrighted works. It was a reductio ad absurdum for minimal non-human involvement. It's probably not the case that a monkey stealing your camera and taking a selfie creates a copyrighted work. It's probably the case that a frog triggering a motion sensor you set up for nature photography does. It's certain painting normally with a horsehair brush does.
Your remarks seem to make some sort of moral appeal, but I'm not sure how it ties into the legal concerns I thought was being raised.
> the ai is actually only capable of blending what it’s been trained on, whereas an artist is not similarly limited.
I'm not sure what "blending" means here or what the actual theories of generative art ML systems and of humans here are. To call what the former do "blending" requires such a broad definition I can't tell you if humans are blending as well (at least some of the time, at least materially) when creating works.
No.
> One might argue that artists take inspiration from other artists to make the argument that what the AI is doing is fine.
This doesn't seem to address what I took to be the relevant part of IP law - that non-human authors don't create copyrighted works. It was a reductio ad absurdum for minimal non-human involvement. It's probably not the case that a monkey stealing your camera and taking a selfie creates a copyrighted work. It's probably the case that a frog triggering a motion sensor you set up for nature photography does. It's certain painting normally with a horsehair brush does.
Your remarks seem to make some sort of moral appeal, but I'm not sure how it ties into the legal concerns I thought was being raised.
> the ai is actually only capable of blending what it’s been trained on, whereas an artist is not similarly limited.
I'm not sure what "blending" means here or what the actual theories of generative art ML systems and of humans here are. To call what the former do "blending" requires such a broad definition I can't tell you if humans are blending as well (at least some of the time, at least materially) when creating works.