# Grumpy old luddites around here

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grumpy-old-luddites-around-here/1016701
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [April 6, 2025, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grumpy-old-luddites-around-here/1016701 "2025-04-06T16:01:08Z")
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### Author: ![griffin1977](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2025, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grumpy-old-luddites-around-here/1016701/108 "2025-04-08T18:52:08Z")

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> [@Knowed\_Out](#):
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> Actually, Adobe takes great pains to avoid copyright issues in their algorithms. You can’t generate Albert Einstein’s face, for example. They also prohibit image generation for child porn, bloody and gory scenes, etc. For a time the Bitcoin symbol was copyrighted, and wasn’t available in their stock images or text-to-image. Then it went public domain and everything was copacetic.

To avoid hijacking this thread I’d say look at this one. But I was talking about the input to the AI system not the output.

> [@I'm missing something about AI training](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-missing-something-about-ai-training/1014781):
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> Okay, I would like someone to show me the “important” distinctions between AI learning by analyzing existing music, and a human who listens to the same music and gets inspired to sound like their heroes. Surely it can’t be the speed with which AI will learn vs the speed a human picks up on stylistic nuances of artists?

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