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It seems that Valve’s issue is mainly with AI generated assets from tools whose data set is of questionable origin and even then it seems to be to limit legal liability until there’s more clear precedent.

As for analogies of humans learning based on other people’s work, those might not work depending on how the AI tool in question works.

If it’s a tool that purely uses the data set to understand concepts and generates completely unique products then it might be a good analogy.

If however it’s a tool that essentially produces a collage of parts copy and pasted from different sources and smooths things over bit, like how Stable Diffusion did to the point of copying the Getty images logo, then the analogy might fall flat on its face and it might be a more murkier area from a legal perspective.

Seems like sensibly covering their asses given that it's still legally grey (read: noone has brought a significant enough court case) so I wouldn’t be surprised to see more opinions like this start to pop up from various big media hosts.

the submitters can’t prove they own the rights to the assets the AI was trained on

this is VERY good to hear, honestly

a lot of AI's are training on seemingly random info that belongs to various people.

not just images, but books, movies etc.