Clearly going to school did not help you learn the meaning of theft. If you keep repeating the same incorrect point there is no point to a discussion.
First: in your opinion, which specific type of law or right is being broken or violated by generative AI? Copyright? Trademark? Can we at least agree it does not meet the definition of theft?
I was taught as a kid that using something that doesn't belong to me, without their permission is theft... and it appears courts would agree with that.
> which specific type of law or right is being broken or violated by generative AI?
Namely, copyright. Here's some quick points:
- Generative AI cannot exist without copyrighted works. It cannot be "taught" any other way, unlike a human.
- Any copyrighted works fed to it change its database ("weights" in technical speech).
- It then transforms these copyrighted works into new works that the "original author would have never considered without attribution" (not a legal defense)
I liken Generative AI to a mosaic of copyrighted works in which a new image is shown through the composition, as the originals can be extracted through close observation (prompting) but are otherwise indistinguishable from the whole.
Mosaics of copyrighted works are not fair use, so why would AI be any different? I'd be interested if you could point to a closer physical approximation, but I haven't found one yet.
First: in your opinion, which specific type of law or right is being broken or violated by generative AI? Copyright? Trademark? Can we at least agree it does not meet the definition of theft?