Comment by amlib

Here are my 2 cents, I think we will need some laws specifying two types of AI models, ones trained with full consent (opt-in) for its training material and ones without. The first one would be like Adobe's firefly model where they allegedly own everything they trained it with, or something where you go around asking for consent for each thing in your training corpus (probably unfeasible for large models). Maybe things in the public domain would be ok to train with. In this case there are no restrictions and the output from such models can even be copyrighted.

Now for the second type, representing models such as Stable Difusion and Chat GPT, it would be required to have their trained model freely available to anyone and any resulting output would not be copyrightable. It may be a more fairer way of allowing anyone to harness the power of AI models that contain essentially the knowledge of all man kind, but without giving any party an unfair monopoly on it.

This should be easily enforceable for big corporations, else it would be too obvious if they are trying to pass one type model as another or even keep the truth about their model from leaking. It might not be as easy to keep small groups or individuals from breaking those rules, but hey, at least it evens the playing field.