Comparing a child painting stuff to an AI model stealing artwork without permission for others to use to generate art is apples and oranges. You still aren't addressing the blatantly obvious point - artwork on the internet being used without permission. People are selling or using these generated AI works (by themselves or apart of a book, etc.). This causes issues.

And I am a Software Engineer - yes I know it's a meme but I'm not referring to that. Good programmers don't copy and paste from the internet constantly. If it's an algorithm, sure that is fine. But a good programmer can generally develop features on the frontend/backend for software without needing heavy assistance.

The AI model, presumably machine learning, is not even remotely close to being "like a human". It's called "artificial intelligence" for a reason. The "training" data heavily influences the output.

If you made a machine learning model on a very small scale, such as putting 10 images from artists as its training data, the produced work would very obviously be just portions of the images you fed it. This is no different than what we are seeing now, just on a bigger scale. The output for the source code generation, or art generation, is quite literally using stolen portions of code/images.

I feel people are looking at the final outcome rather than how it got there.

This is the equivalent of hiring one guy to just copy and paste code from the internet for every feature, etc. for a piece of software to be developed (with a lot of imperfections, mind you) and giving the guy a raise because the outcome works.

It doesn't matter. The work "produced" by AI is LITERALLY the result of using other people's content without consent. Therefore, all produced work is quite literally stolen portions of other people's work.

So yes, it should be considered copyright infringement because it's literally taking people's work and using it without their consent. I highly suggest you look up how machine learning works.

Therefore the "produced" content of the AI is not original or genuine, and is very limited by context. Not to mention, it is not able to produce a single, genuine piece of software that is hundreds of lines of code without it being a direct copy and paste of someone else's work.

Yeah, this is literally every AI right now being thrown in the headlines.

It's taking other people's shit without permission, and making shit that is heavily influenced off of other's stuff. And people still want to act like it can make genuine music.