This analogy is absolutely bonkers. the VCR is not made out of copyrighted material. If the VCR does not spit bunch of copyrighted material on demand because the makers put it there. AI Image generation models cannot be created without copyrighted material. That is not even a controversial take.
riskable@programming.dev 20 hours ago
A VCR spits out copyrighted material because the user put it there (by inserting a cassette). Just like how an AI can spit out something that resembles copyrighted works when a user asks it to do so.
It’s not a perfect analogy but it fits. Especially from a legal perspective.