In so far as anger goes against AIs being trained on particular intellectual properties.
A made up scenario¹ is that a person who is training an AI, goes to the local
library and checks out 600 books on art.
The person then lets the AI read all of them.
After which they are returned to the library and another 600 books are borrowed
Then we can imagine the AI somehow visiting a lot of museums and galleries.
The AI will now have been trained on the style and looks of a lot
of art from different artists
All the material has been obtained in a legal manner.
Is this an acceptable use?
Or can an artist still assert that the AI was trained with their
IP without consent?
Clearly this is one of the ways a human would go about learning
about styles, techniques etc..
¹ Yes you probably cannot borrow 600 books at a time.
How does the AI read the books? I dont know. Simplicity would be
that the researcher takes a photo of each page.
This would be extremmly slow but for this hypothetical it is acceptable.
I think the key difference here is that the most prominent image generation AIs are commercial and for-profit. The scenarios you describe are comparing a commercial AI to a private person. You cannot get a library card for a company, and you cannot bring a photography crew to a gallery without permission.
A made up scenario¹ is that a person who is training an AI, goes to the local library and checks out 600 books on art. The person then lets the AI read all of them. After which they are returned to the library and another 600 books are borrowed
Then we can imagine the AI somehow visiting a lot of museums and galleries.
The AI will now have been trained on the style and looks of a lot of art from different artists
All the material has been obtained in a legal manner.
Is this an acceptable use?
Or can an artist still assert that the AI was trained with their IP without consent?
Clearly this is one of the ways a human would go about learning about styles, techniques etc..
¹ Yes you probably cannot borrow 600 books at a time. How does the AI read the books? I dont know. Simplicity would be that the researcher takes a photo of each page. This would be extremmly slow but for this hypothetical it is acceptable.