petabytes of training data are transformed into mere gigabytes of model weights. no existing copyright laws are violated. until new laws declare that permission is required, this is a non-argument.
>If this AI worked without training, no one would say anything.
adobe firefly was trained on licensed content, and rest assured, the anti-AI zealots don't give it a pass.
the copyright is just one of the many angles they use to decry the thing that threatens their jobs.