[Riverheart]

The collection of the training data is the “scooping up” I mentioned. I assume you acknowledge the training data doesn’t spontaneously burst out of the aether?

As for the model, it’s still creating deterministic, derivative works based off its inputs and the only thing that makes it random is the seed so it being a database of vectors is irrelevant.

[rcxdude]

deterministic is neither here nor there for copyright infringement. a hash of an image is not infringing, and a slightly noisy version of it is.

[Riverheart]

Nobody is trying to copyright an image hash and determinism matters because it’s why the outputs are derivative rather than inspired.