AI Art - If you're against AI art, do not fight it with copyright infringment

The tl;dr is be careful writing new copywrite laws that will let Disney sue your pants off if you hand draw something that looks Disneyesque because that's what happens if you empower copyright law to stop AI from drawing things Disney style

I’m going to say a very pared down version of something I said elsewhere. Overly draconian copyright could be bad, but the alternative is not better.

Corporations could use machine learning systems to make stylistic copies of any IP they don’t currently own and use their superior reach, marketing, and control over distribution systems to drown out any possible competition.

If Machine-Learning systems make it easier for the average person to produce more content without any restriction, corporations will use their superior resources to restrict access to avenues of sharing that material.

It’s not an all or nothing either way. Copyright is a concept we invented. We can invent a new concept to solve this issue. StyleRights: Style is only fair use in a product that is 75% non-machine generated. (these figures are arbitrary, not the specifics I’m arguing.)

Just an example, but some more flexibility could fix a lot of issues.