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JOExHIGASHI posted...

I don't know how AI learning art works. Does it steal images or parts of images to create art?

Very broadly, the learning process involves looking at a wide variety of images and finding elements that are common to various descriptors. Then when you give it a prompt that includes those descriptors, it regurgitates some amalgamation of all elements it's learned that match those descriptors.

There's a ton more nuance to it than that, but the bottom line is that it has to learn from a set of images, generally getting better results the larger the set is. Those images form the basis for whatever it produces, so in a way it can be said to be copying parts of them, but where it doesn't strictly copy them it falls into a bit of a grey area as far as copyright goes. The legal nuance of that can be expected to play out over the next few years.