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The “issue” is that this logic applies to all human creations as well.
i disagree. IP laws have more or less handled humans stealing ideas from humans for commercial gain. not perfectly by any means... but both the scale an impunity and frankly the entitlement exhibited by these GenAI companies is on another level.
no matter how many times people make the argument that AIs are just "doing what humans do", it fails to sway me. an AI copying, ingesting and tokenizing other people's intellectual property is nothing like a human watching a video or hearing a song and creating something based upon or derived from it. a database backed algorithm does nothing even remotely like a human mind. it's using software to process and regurgitate the works of others, and that is pretty plainly IP theft.
I mean, AI was literally modeled after how human mind works, because it turned out it's an effective way to learn stuff. So your claim of "is nothing like a human watching a video or hearing a song and creating something based upon or derived from it" is objectively false.
I'm pretty sure that there's not a consensus on how the mind works yet. AI is more accurately described as "modeled after how we think the mind works right now". the processes used in AI are at best smplified analogs of perceived mental processes. just because they can produce a similar output doesn't mean they are functionally equivalent to actual human thought processes. i mean, it takes a supercomputer to model a portion of a rat brain the size of a grain of sand... i remain unconvinced that the technology as it currently exists is more than a caricature of cognition.
We know fairly well how mind works, at least the parts that were an inspiration for machine learning.