This article claims generative AI systems are in a precarious legal position because you can ask them to generate images of copyrighted characters like Spider-Man or Mario & Luigi.

I think this concern isn’t valid. A tool being able to draw Spider-Man because you asked it too isn’t copyright infringement until you do something with that image. Otherwise drawing Spider-Man in Photoshop as a personal sketch would be illegal without a license.

Of course, I’m not a lawyer.
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/things-are-about-to-get-a-lot-worse