Comment by stale2002

> ou'd need to prove that the AI is itself morally (or, depending on the nature of the dispute, legally) equivalent to a human and therefore deserving of

No you don't.

A human using a computer to make art doesn't automatically lose their fair use rights as a human.

> indisputably the case that software is not currently legally equivalent to a human

Fortunately it is the human who uses the computer who has the legal rights to use computers in their existing process of fair use.

Human brains or giving rights to computers has absolutely nothing to do with the rights of human to use a camera, use photoshop, or even use AI, on a computer.