This is a very clear agpl violation. FSF should be all over this and sue the living crap out of the AI companies. You could even get it class action by gathering a few agpl code authors.
People in this thread are acting like the AI companies are just flouting the law and there's nothing that can be done. This is an extremely well documented precedent, and GPL violations routinely show up in court. It's a very easy case to lay out especially because no one is really complaining about money except in the settlement... It's all about distributing the source code. And of course a very nice chunk of change for infringement but that's beside the point.
A successfully litigated case would result in the open sourcing of every AI that touched agpl code in any way because it was in memory with the AI algorithm.
As clear as "can I take a copyrighted photo, use a photoshop filter on it, and then it's not copyrighted anymore?" is pretty clearly a solved question in any copyright system.
I think that this is actually a complex topic in copyright law that requires case by case analysis. It clearly is possible to cut out things from magazines, glue them together to form a collage and create a copyrighted work of art. In my naive opinion sufficient photoshop filtering can thus create a new copyrighted work.
People in this thread are acting like the AI companies are just flouting the law and there's nothing that can be done. This is an extremely well documented precedent, and GPL violations routinely show up in court. It's a very easy case to lay out especially because no one is really complaining about money except in the settlement... It's all about distributing the source code. And of course a very nice chunk of change for infringement but that's beside the point.
A successfully litigated case would result in the open sourcing of every AI that touched agpl code in any way because it was in memory with the AI algorithm.
clear in what way?