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Most of these companies are just arguing that they shouldn't have to license the works they're using because that would be hard and inconvenient, which isn't terribly compelling to me. But Adobe actually has a novel take I hadn't heard before: they equate AI development to reverse engineering software, which also involves copying things you don't own in order to create a compatible thing you do own. They even cited a related legal case, which is unusual in this pile of sour grapes. I don't know that I'm convinced by Adobe's argument, I still think the artists should have a say in whether their works go into an AI and a chance to get paid for it, but it's the first argument I've seen for a long while that's actually given me something to think about.
Yeah the difference is that a software company still makes money if you use their working code to improve your own shit. You're not allowed to just copy paste Oracle's entire repo and then sell it as your own original code.