I don't think there will be a ruling like "anything from a neural net is yours", that'd be a bit ridiculous for very obvious reasons. I'm no copyright law expe

I don't think there will be a ruling like "anything from a neural net is yours", that'd be a bit ridiculous for very obvious reasons. I'm no copyright law expert and I'm certainly not a lawyer, but it seems to me that in your examples you're setting out to violate copyright as a goal, which seems like it would be a factor in a court case. To answer your last question, your examples are pretty clearly distinguishable from Copilot in their final states that you describe. IDK exactly *when* during overfitting that line is crossed, maybe it's crossed the moment you personally decide to knowingly publish copyrighted content and has nothing to do with the neural network itself?