> Do we abandon copyright because of scale? This is an interesting question. I wonder if, due the number of items in the training set and the minimal impact of

> Do we abandon copyright because of scale? This is an interesting question. I wonder if, due the number of items in the training set and the minimal impact of each individual creative work, it would be considered fair use. If your training set significantly consists of images from someone else's training set in the same domain, you might have a conflict. But for arbitrary images, it may be analogous to search engines indexing (and learning from) copyrighted material, which is generally protected.