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Only humans can violate laws: the AI isn't using copyrighted materials, it's human owner/operator is.

The human owner/operator did not have proper licensing to perform this action, trying to argue "but with an AI" doesn't change the act.

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Not disagreeing with your end conclusion, but surely the concept of a limited company exists exactly to have a distinction between legal entities, some of which are not humans but may still violate laws. Take it this way: if the EU fines a company for GDPR violations, it doesn't really fine an individual. Perhaps no individual broke the law explicitly, but as a collective the end result is a law violation.

Technically yes, but how that is handled is up to the country. In the US, a concept known as "corporate personhood" exists. A strange concept, because if a company murders someone, the company, nor any of its executives, go to prison.

The law is weird.

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