Here's an interesting question: Corridor Digital are getting closer to perfecting AI anime. After the first video, Rock Paper Scissors, they said they got some

Here's an interesting question: Corridor Digital are getting closer to perfecting AI anime. After the first video, Rock Paper Scissors, they said they got some flak for training the AI on stills from an existing anime movie, so for the second one they hired an artist and trained it from their drawings. Well, what happens if you hire an artist that essentially draws some art work heavily inspired by an existing IP and then you train your AI model on that? Is that infringement, even though the art work you've trained the AI on is now one step removed from official source material, even if it is practically identical? What if you commission another artist to make artwork based on that artwork? And another after that? When does the signal get distorted enough to pass as not being based on pre-existing IP? The whole thing feels like the "grain of sand" philosophy problem. What constitutes enough change to warrant something as not belonging to an IP anymore? Are we going to have to come up with some sort of image comparison algorithm that spits out a comparison percentage and set some arbitrary number as the cut off point? Or are we going to continue with time consuming and costly case by case, human judged comparisons? The whole thing feels ridiculous.