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The boundaries are not set in stone, and so the answer is the old theme of "it depend". To provide a slightly different situation which was discussed a few years ago, can you train an AI on pictures of human faces without getting permission? Human painters have created images of faces for a very long time, so is it any different in terms of law and/ethics if an AI do it?

Yes, a bit? It depend. Using such things for advertisement would likely cause anger if people start to recognize images of the training set the AI was trained on.



My opinion would be that if the training set for the face generator was made up of photos whose creators had asked you to credit them if you re-used their work, then, yes, the generator is ethically in the wrong if it's skipping that attribution. Regardless of copyright. (And I feel the same way about Copilot.)




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