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Google says AI systems should be able to mine publishers’ work unless companies opt out, turning copyright law on its head (www.theguardian.com)

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In its submission to the Australian government’s review of the regulatory framework around AI, Google said that copyright law should be altered to allow for generative AI systems to scrape the internet.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

That's sorta the point of it.
I can recreate the phrase "apple pie" in any number of styles and fonts using my hands and a writing tool. Would you say that I "contain" the phrase "apple pie"? Where is the letter 'p' in my brain?

Specifically, the AI contains the relationship between sets of words, and sets of relationships between lines, contrasts and colors.
From there, it knows how to take a set of words, and make an image that proportionally replicates those line pattern and color relationships.

You can probably replicate the Getty images watermark close enough for it to be recognizable, but you don't contain a copy of it in the sense that people typically mean.
Likewise, because you can recognize the artist who produced a piece, you contain an awareness of that same relationship between color, contrast and line that the AI does. I could show you a Picasso you were unfamiliar with, and you'd likely know it was him based on the style.
You've been "trained" on his works, so you have internalized many of the key markers of his style. That doesn't mean you "contain" his works.