The problem with trying to use copyright to stop AI art generators is that it’s not going to work. In the slightest, at any level.
For the current tech-demo stuff that’s running around, even if the models that make the things run somehow become illegal to distribute, that’s not going to stop any one. The internet is very good at distributing things. Additionally, it would still be possible to train new models on public domain art, of which there is a lot.
As for the big corporate side, it turns out big media companies have access to large amounts of art that they happen to own. Which, if desired, can be used to train a new model. You can make the most draconian copright laws, and enforce intellectual property to the most draconian degree, and that would still be legal.
Of course I still think we’re heading for some absolutely disastrous decisions in the area, so you may want to stock up on compression and encryption algorithms, as well as tools for converting between file formats. I doubt any problems will be solved, but new ones can certainly be created.
