@wolftune Except how such software on someone else's server only tends to be trained on information that was already under a free license or at least was publicly available - the proprietary works that one may wish to synthesize usually aren't inputted.

I doubt that any court will conclude that a language model that regurgitates input text or images combined in interesting ways (there's a reason why microsoft didn't train co-pilot on any of its proprietary software, or the private repos of businesses after all) makes copyright no longer apply .


Proprietary copyright licenses do hamper creativity, but free, copyleft licenses don't, so while copyright is still a thing, it's important to keep the copyright status crystal clear and use copyleft licenses, so businesses can't easily ruin everything.