> It looks like it, but it’s not the exact same thing, it’s almost as if the AI is drawing it from memory, which in some way it is, it’s re-constructing what St

> It looks like it, but it’s not the exact same thing, it’s almost as if the AI is drawing it from memory, which in some way it is, it’s re-constructing what Starry Night looks like. The blog post also has a picture of four slightly-different recreations of a Van Gogh painting. The thing is, under current copyright law in the US, all four of those recreations would be legally considered the same image. The standard for copyright infringement is access plus substantial similarity. It would be easy to construe access to a training image set through ML software that was trained on that set; and thus any regurgitated output would be infringing.