Copyright, as the name implies, is mostly for restricting copying (as in printing copies of a book), but also restricts distribution, adaptation, display, and p

Copyright, as the name implies, is mostly for restricting copying (as in printing copies of a book), but also restricts distribution, adaptation, display, and public performance of that work. In the case of AI, it’s the “adaptation” part which is up for debate. If a person uses an image as part of a training set for an AI image generator, and then uses said AI to generate new images, are those images “adaptations” of the images in the training set? I would suggest that the answer is yes, but current behavior by AI vendors are not in concordance with that view.