Comment by prerok
9 days ago
Indeed, but where does it stop? Looks like Potter? No go. Hmm, looks like an illustration of Pug? No go. Looks like Simon the sorcerer. No go. Hmm, looks like a wizard from Infocom's Sorcers get all the girls. No go.
The problem is that it regurgitates what already exists and if you really want to abide by all the permissions then there is nothing left.
Not at all. It doesn't only regurgitate what already exists and create a new wizard character that's not an existing one. It might have some elements of existing ones but that doesn't make it necessarily a copyright violation.
Here's Gemini's "make a picture of a young wizard which isn't a copy of any existing one.". I don't know enough about wizards to know how unique it is but maybe you can tell. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/gg-dl/AA8i_VKUEpqw3AOOB_t4...
The AI companies could always license all that copyrighted training materials. You can't claim there's no solution while ignoring the solution everyone' been using for ages just because these corporations told you so.