A friend specializes in these subjects as a professor in law at UW and she feels that it’s highly likely that training using copyright material is in fact a vio

A friend specializes in these subjects as a professor in law at UW and she feels that it’s highly likely that training using copyright material is in fact a violation of copyright. The argument it’s a VCR or xerox, or that it’s a highly lossy model, likely won’t hold to be sufficient under copyright. The creation of a new commercial product leveraging copyright material in such ways likely doesn’t rise to a criminal copyright violation, the standard for civil copyright violation is much simpler. I hate to do an appeal to authority here, but her explanation was fairly technical and without enough training in the law my mind couldn’t retain those details. My point is - who on earth is this dude? I read it hoping for something material like my friends analysis based in actual law. I was very disappointed. There really seems to be a lack of quality analysis of the copyright status of AI models in written form.