What laws do you mean?
The same law you brought up? Laws which are written into national treaties?
Regardless of your beliefs about copyright and how it should be changed (or abolished), it is not just the law of the land, it is the law of the world.
That's slightly different. Just because an AI model is capable of plagarism, that's a factor that emerges from usage. The act of training a model hasn't currently been judged to be illegal and neither as far as I know (at least in most jurisdictions) has the initial data gathering.
Creating output that infringes on someone elses copyright is obviously problemmatic and few would argue otherwise. But that isn't a problem specific to AI.
I disagree, because it could be prevented by not training on copyrighted material in the first place. You can't reproduce a highly-unique Nat Geo cover photo if it hasn't been encoded into the model. You can't reproduce watermarks that aren't in the training set. Remember: it's an algorithm, not person. The outputs are directly related to what's been encoded into the model.
> The act of training a model hasn't currently been judged to be illegal
It's outside of the rights granted by the copyright holders in most cases (MIT and CC are probably the few licenses which allows this, and even CC/NC wouldn't allow it and MIT falls afoul of the attribution clause).
The legal system hasn't yet reviewed such widespread infringement yet to create precedent. But eventually it will, and I don't believe it will be kind.
