@carnage4life if I ask a tool to draw Spider-Man, and it does… isn’t that because the tool has been trained on copyrighted images of the character? How can a model reproduce copyrighted work without copyrighted input?

I think this is fundamentally different from a person grabbing a notebook and sketching the character. Mead doesn’t profit from what someone sketches in their notebooks. Meanwhile, whoever maintains the model is collecting revenue based on what it generates.