Poor person unable to afford a 20$ movie ticket to the megacorp’s blockbuster slop grabs a cam online.

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.

It's not theft in either example. Also, neither example is reselling the original product. In the case of news article, access to them is generally not even restricted, and they're out there for everyone to read.

> I want to put it in a section of my tv show.

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.

Except, of course, when they are.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/amp/midjourney-copyright-266687210...