As far as I know, training generative AI on copyrighted works is fair use, though there may be some legal subtleties around this that need to be worked out. I'm guessing these copyright owners are trying to get some precedent in their favor with this suit.
IMHO AI training should be fair use and I hope this and other suits like it go nowhere. Honestly I don't think the authors have a leg to stand on here. If a generative AI is trained on a bunch of Stephen King novels it doesn't learn to reproduce the works themselves, ie. there is no copy of "Carrie" in the model data which it will spit out pieces of. A good model will learn to write in the style of King; this can be compared to a human author who also reads King's works and wants to write in the same style. Clearly there is no copyright violation in that case, so generative AI should be covered as well.
As far as I know, training generative AI on copyrighted works is fair use, though there may be some legal subtleties around this that need to be worked out. I'm guessing these copyright owners are trying to get some precedent in their favor with this suit.
IMHO AI training should be fair use and I hope this and other suits like it go nowhere. Honestly I don't think the authors have a leg to stand on here. If a generative AI is trained on a bunch of Stephen King novels it doesn't learn to reproduce the works themselves, ie. there is no copy of "Carrie" in the model data which it will spit out pieces of. A good model will learn to write in the style of King; this can be compared to a human author who also reads King's works and wants to write in the same style. Clearly there is no copyright violation in that case, so generative AI should be covered as well.
They'll know it's a copy when the monsters need to be defeated by preteen sex