It's a bit like saying we can't stop music piracy, now that Napster exists. Napster was a peer-to-peer file sharing application. It originally launched on June

It's a bit like saying we can't stop music piracy, now that Napster exists. Napster was a peer-to-peer file sharing application. It originally launched on June 1, 1999, with an emphasis on digital audio file distribution. Audio songs shared on the service were typically encoded in the MP3 format. It was founded by Shawn Fanning, Sean Parker, and Hugo Sáez Contreras. As the software became popular, the company ran into legal difficulties over copyright infringement. It ceased operations in 2001 after losing a wave of lawsuits and filed for bankruptcy in June 2002. Use of the output of systems like Copilot or Stable Diffusion becomes a violation of copyright. The weight tensors are illegal to possess, just like it's illegal to possess leaked Intel source code. If you use the art in your product, on your website, etc., you risk legal action. The companies that train these systems can't distribute them without risking legal action. So they won't do it. It's expensive to train these models. It will always exist in the black-market underground, but the civilized world makes it illegal. That's where this is going, I hope. Best case scenario.