Article by IEEE Spectrum: The writers tested the two AI image generators MidJourney and Stable Diffusion, testing their abilities to generate imagery that closely resembled copyrighted material, which proves that the training data of the image generators had to contain copyrighted material. Implemented safeguards were largely unsuccessful to curb the output of potentially infringing images.
Well the AI company did the original theft. You know why they’d send it to the individual? Because its all about control, not about copyright or ownership or whether the technology is useful. Its just control. They’d never send the AI company a cease and desist because AI is going to help Disney pay artists less and they dont even ever have to use AI to do it, they just have to play along with the tech bros.