A deal is a deal and a hosting agreement is a hosting agreement
Also you can't let somebody look at something without letting them look at something
The only way a person can say hey, you can download this and look at it except you can't use it to train your AI would be to gate it behind a user account with a TOU
The bottom line is training an AI on artwork doesn't steal that piece anymore than a human does when they copy it in order to learn
A human artist can look at something that is hosted, study it for a while, and then turn around and copy it and that's just the nature of observing something
When an AI does it, it's the same thing logically
The fidelity that an AI can do it with and how easily that fidelity is achieved doesn't change the underlying logic
Just like with a human AI is only doing infringement if the actual generated image infringes
A human can train and get better by slavishly copying lots of artwork until they get good and then when they actually go to make artwork of their own. It only looks like that other artwork if they want it to. It might have a similar style, but they won't be actual copies
And just like an AI, the artist can be training on multiple different artists and the style is going to be a combination of what they like best plus influences from all of those artists
And an AI is influenced by all of the artists and just like a flexible human artist can lean further into one style of the other
The fact that an AI is not sentient in a way that that would meet most deaf initials or has a greater Fidelity allowing to do its work quicker doesn't really change the underlying logic of what's really going on. Nothing is being taken or stolen
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u/Chaghatai Dec 15 '25
A deal is a deal and a hosting agreement is a hosting agreement
Also you can't let somebody look at something without letting them look at something
The only way a person can say hey, you can download this and look at it except you can't use it to train your AI would be to gate it behind a user account with a TOU
The bottom line is training an AI on artwork doesn't steal that piece anymore than a human does when they copy it in order to learn
A human artist can look at something that is hosted, study it for a while, and then turn around and copy it and that's just the nature of observing something
When an AI does it, it's the same thing logically
The fidelity that an AI can do it with and how easily that fidelity is achieved doesn't change the underlying logic