> Humans aren’t allowed to sell direct copies of other people’s art Direct copying yes, but stealing ideas? No. Actually it is a well-known practice in the art

> Humans aren’t allowed to sell direct copies of other people’s art Direct copying yes, but stealing ideas? No. Actually it is a well-known practice in the art industry to use several existing works as references, and creating new artwork that is bit of mixture of all of them. That is exactly what DALL-E/StableDiffusion are trying to do. AI isn't borrowing pixels, either. If you read the idea of diffusion models, quite the opposite, what it directly learns is how to destroy an image from what it is into gaussian noise. The trick here is we can reverse this process 'creating' arts from noises. There is no copying pixels, not even in the most simplistic version of how this model works.