AI is in danger of being swallowed up by copyright law
There&#x27;s no part of AI that is being swallowed up by copyright. AI companies can ask for permission if they want to train their models on other people&#x27;s works. It&#x27;s not that hard, various image hosting sites have already added an opt-in&#x2F;opt-out toggle to their services. Sites might even get away with using this stuff as compensation for free hosting.<p>The fact of the matter is that the AI companies don&#x27;t want to ask for permission, because people will say no. Or worse, ask for attribution or even payment. There is plenty of copyright free&#x2F;public domain material out there, but what the customers of AI people want isn&#x27;t available under those terms.<p>The code to train an AI is not enough to make a product and these people have nothing to add themselves, so they take what others made and use that to make a profit. They can make or pay for their own paintings, their own pictures, their own music, but that would require putting in too much work or paying too much money.<p>It&#x27;s very possible that a judge will rule that AI models do not violate copyright. If that is the case, I hope new legislation will correct that oversight very quickly.