People say this like it’s a fact. Until the courts decide otherwise or your AI model is regurgitating copyrighted data verbatim, generative AI is probably not violating copyright.
Hopefully they won’t, but it’s not looking good.
The annoying part is that if they do decide it’s infringement, then open source AI models won’t be allowed to know anything about copyrighted works. It’ll be a big blind spot.
I vaguely remember a short science fiction story where people got uploaded to the cloud. There were three options for your memories.
The expensive one you got to keep all your memories of Copyright music, video, books. The medium priced one it was replaced with public domain stuff. The cheap one it was all replaced with advertising.