Thread OP here.

Creating an AI that incorporates copyrighted work is indeed OK in my opinion, but I would view fine tuning much more critically. A commercial AI that can accurately reproduce large parts of Kings work would be problematic in my opinion. This is something I think we both agree on.

But my point is that they can’t. His works make up a minuscule fraction of the training set. An AI can not pump out hundreds of Stephen King-like chapters per hour. The same way Stephen King can not write in the style of xzy, only crudely approximate it. So in my opinion it’s a non issue ^^for at least a few more years until AI achieves superhuman performance.^^