considering openai is happily promoting their image generator tool by just straight up allowing anyone to generate things based on an entire animation studios distinctive art style (that has been trained by stealing the studios’ artwork that was made with lots of human effort and creativity) i feel this is pretty apt
as much as its bad ethically, japan’s copyright laws are stupid and allow AI models and companies like OpenAI to train models using copyrighted content :/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38842788 and)
yikes. its frustrating to see legislators legalise this kind of (in my view) theft, what other sort of company just gets to not pay for the raw materials they use to make their product? you don’t see car companies just stealing metal to make their cars, they need to pay someone for it.
will note the top reply to that ycombinator post: “The source referenced is the minutes a representative made in a committee last year in april and within that a clarification question while discussing AI in education. It's not policy, not recent and not true.”