“Well, I could see why you might think you could make such a claim, but you’re too late, I’ve already altered their ‘expression’. Please, come on in and search all you want. Rather than finding the planks you’re looking for all you’ll find are tables and chairs.”
“We are so sorry for disturbing you, sir. You are a truly ethical and impressive innovator. An inspirational disruptor of our existing legal understanding.”
But the content is not being resold.
Turing-test passing AIs have an existential right to read and learn as much as humans do.
Piracy is not theft.
Megacorp steals the art style of a poor artist to promote the abilities of their “job disruptor”.
Piracy is not theft.
One of these is different from the other. I’ll let you search it.
The example just does not apply because AIs are only learning from the source content; they're not redisplaying or reselling the source content, not even as a part of a whole.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/amp/midjourney-copyright-266687210...