> I'm ok with the model knowing what Indiana Jones or the Predator looks like with well remembered details,
ClosedAI doesn't seem to be OK with it, because they are explicitly censoring characters of more popular IPs. Presumably as a fig leaf against accusations of theft.
The fact that they have guardrails to try and prevent it means OpenAI themselves thinks it is at least shady or outright illegal in someway. Otherwise why bother?
Doing what? Telling their artists to create what they want regardless of copyright and then filtering the output?
For humans it doesn't make sense because we have generation and filtering in a single package.
If you define feeding of copyrighted material into a non-human learning machine as theft, then sure. Anything that mitigates legal consequences will be a fig leaf.
The question is "should we define it as such?"