I think it’s a question of what counts as publication. I think that an AI model is analogous to an employee. Imagine I ask my employee to write an article, and

I think it’s a question of what counts as publication. I think that an AI model is analogous to an employee. Imagine I ask my employee to write an article, and they just copy an existing one from the times. That’s plagiarism and bad work, not copyright infringement. If I then decide to publish the plagiarised article, then I have committed copyright infringement. I once ran into this exact problem with a human. I hired a designer to make some artwork for an app. When I launched the app it turned out that the human had just copied the artwork from another game. It’s my problem that I hired an idiot, and my problem that my app was infringing the copyright of another app. (We redesigned the graphics very quickly)