Machine learning is not human learning in any meaningful or legal way because laws are for humans and crucially machine is not human. It will be the case as lo

Machine learning is not human learning in any meaningful or legal way because laws are for humans and crucially machine is not human. It will be the case as long as that machine lacks free will, human rights and all that important stuff. If it gets to a level where a machine is granted human rights this could be reassessed. Until then, whoever operates the machine is to whom laws apply, and in this case they violate copyright by capitalizing on others’ creative work and intellectual property through creating derivative works. The large interests in question are guys like OpenAI/Microsoft, and it is in their interest that we continue to see AI as some human-like enigma and don’t think about the ethics of what they do. If you ask actual small artists, most do not in fact share this enthusiasm.