I'm talking about training on other authors' writing styles. Not plagiarizing.
So am I, however, when AI trains...currently there is a BIG part of plagiarizing that goes on with that. One complaint that went into the Hollywood Screenwriter's strike that occurred recently dealt directly with this. Training AI in essence is stealing people's voices and plagiarizing.
Plagiarism machines
A Human author normally has a VERY hard time writing in someone else's voice, no matter how much they were trained in their writing style. An educated literary reader can see who wrote what, even if an author is trying to replicate another' voice (and there have been several that have tried to replicate Jane Austin and others and failed).
AI is on a completely different level in copying this voice, or stealing it...much in part because it plagiarizes like I talked about above. When it trains, it steals.
A similar thing can be said of the artwork which it is doing as well. Those lines come from somewhere. The question is WHERE that artwork is coming from and who are it's origins.
AI is self learning to a degree currently, but it is also still programming. The way a computer works and the way a human works are different, and it shows in how they copy or replicate something. This is why a human can figure out how to draw hands from a teacher within a hour or two (or, perhaps a slower individual it could take a day or more) whilst an AI it may take millions or billions of man hours to learn how to do the same thing. At the same time, the basic forms and shapes along with shading which may take a person longer to learn may only take the AI a shortwhile to do so.
They are learning and approaching that training in different ways. It's why it makes it so problematic currently. Due to the way the AI is trained, it's more than just training like a human would train, it's training like you would a program. A program regurgitates what is put into it. In that same way, the same artwork and same words and forms that are input into it are eventually regurgitated out in whatever form of art it puts out (currently).
The advances are jumping by leaps and bounds right now, but unless everything being used is public domain, I can see an eventuality where things will come to a head between the artists and the studios using AI where certain choices will have to be made in regards to legalities and money (because, at the end of the day for big business, that's what it's going to probably really revolve around).