It’s baffling to me that AI is considered “fair use”. Like, I get it if it was for academic purposes, but as soon as you start commercializing the results, which can include copies of the original works verbatim, surely that breaks at least 2 (probably 3) criteria for fair use.

Like, how fucked up is it that torrenting a movie for personal enjoyment can land you in trouble, but torrenting that same movie and then reselling almost exact stills from it as your own work totally legal? (I know the answer is “be rich and white”, this is a rhetorical question)

Sounds about right. They say it’s the first court ruling of its kind (here). I bet it’s making its way to the next appeal court as we speak. We need way more court cases to get clarity on AI and how it relates to our current laws.