(IANAL) I am increasingly of the belief that: * the fact that the AI trained on a set of images doesn't mean it's a derivative work, the same way I don't think

(IANAL) I am increasingly of the belief that: * the fact that the AI trained on a set of images doesn't mean it's a derivative work, the same way I don't think it's a derivative work if I see a bunch of images online and that influences my painting style * if an image was used as a direct input (img2img), then the result is a derivative work even if the image is not similar enough BTW I don't think the same reasoning holds for all AI output, for example if Copilot basically "copy-pastes" an exact snippet of code, that's derivative of the original (unless the snippet is trivial or the only way to achieve the result, ie. non-copyrightable).