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If Disney can't sue for this, then what exactly would be too far? We're a few steps from being able to animate our own movies in Disney style.
Too far would be anything outside of fair use. If a user generates an image of a specific copyrighted character, then attempts to make money off of that image, they could be sued.
You can't copyright a style, but there's still a lot of legal grey area here.
It's also worth noting that OpenAI has an indemnification clause in their Terms of Use. This means that if someone else goes after OpenAI for something that went viral and was created by a specific user, OpenAI can then turn around and bill that user for all legal fees incurred by them (whether they win or lose the case).
If anyone is into using AI for anything, I would strongly suggest that they avoid using (or at least publishing/posting about) any of OpenAI's tools especially while all of these legal issues are still being sorted out.
The interesting thing would be an algorithm that is as close to a duplicate as possible without breaking copyright.
Then there's the fact company like Disney will want to use AI to lower labor costs, while at the same time preventing others from doing the same to them. Given their lobbying what weird laws will that result in?