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Re:Invasive Diffusion: one unwilling illustrator found her t... by michaelmrose on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @02:31PM (#33425376)
I think both are inevitable and I'm ok with both. I think a sticking point is that its considered normal to make your own art in the style of another but abnormal to copy code verbatim. Art seems to be clearly the former while there are instances that probably stick in people's minds where copilot has produced verbatim examples.

Indeed it seems like code will be vastly more prone to this problem compared to art because changing a single pixel is merely a question of aesthetics whereas code is constrained tightly by the syntax of the language. With a much smaller space of correct results duplication is likely inevitable.

Re:Invasive Diffusion: one unwilling illustrator found her t... by somethingor on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @01:48PM (#33440020)
This is my thinking too. A maximally useful code AI would include verbatim reproduction (since presumably the code it was trained on was written that way for a reason relevant to its function). A maximally useful art AI has comparatively little reason to ever want to output verbatim training inputs.