Honestly I don’t think this is the fundamental question in this case. It’s buried a bit by the lede but IMO the more fundamental question is whether AI models

Honestly I don’t think this is the fundamental question in this case. It’s buried a bit by the lede but IMO the more fundamental question is whether AI models can be trained off of publicly available, copyrighted content without compensating the owner of said copyright. This is regardless of how the eventual work is presented and how “different” it is. It’s where this falls on the “fair use” spectrum. This is uncharted territory for any sort of fair use doctrine as written.