Yes, and they own their creative output, instead of the firm who trained them. The proper analogy to ML is that the owners of the latter train a slave, and the

Yes, and they own their creative output, instead of the firm who trained them. The proper analogy to ML is that the owners of the latter train a slave, and then use that training process as justification for owning everything[1] the slave ever produces. How can freemen compete with that? [1] Which also happens to be a perversion of copyright law, since AI can't enter into a contract that can assign rights to creative output to it's owner.