If I train an ‘AI’ on a single pice of work, can I then claim ownership over it legally? I believe the US courts ruled that if you didn’t have significant input over the result, it becomes public domain. But I believe they also ruled that if the output looks significantly different from any of the inputs, it’s “transformative” and does not violate copyright. to refer to someone that has never seen the other software’s source is developing its replacement. AGPL is open source code though. You’re supposed to view it. If a human views an AGPL project source code once, is all code they write thereafter, inspired by that project and thus a violation of copyright? This would completely break open source. And you can make the same argument for AI. Well aside from “AI isn’t human” argument, which is a lazy argument that you can use the justify anything in regards to AI. Just because AI and humans are different doesn’t mean that distinction matters from the perspective of fair use.