Comments In Response to the US Copyright Office's Artificial Intelligence Study
Unfortunately, I do not know the details of the law that bears on this subject. Instead, I offer some general remarks on the technology which I hope will be useful contributions. When a painter creates a work, the brush does not hold the copyright, the painter holds the copyright. It is not different with "artificial intelligence." If a painter copies someone else's style, that's a copyright violation. It doesn't matter what tool the painter uses. If someone uses an AI model to copy an artist's writing or drawing style and publishes the result, if this does not fall under fair use, that's a copyright violation - it doesn't matter what tool is used. Because "artificial intelligence" is such an efficient violator of copyright, because there is no way to identify an AI model's sources, and because it is impossible to delete a work from an AI model it is both appropriate to insist on an opt-in model for works used to train an AI mo