The analogy that AI models learn like humans is a “deceptive, feel-good idea that prevents the public discussion we need to have about how AI companies are using the creative and intellectual works upon which they are utterly dependent.”

A new 2026 study from Stanford and Yale has found evidence that four of the world’s leading AI platforms can accurately output lengthy sections of copyrighted works from a regular prompt. This provides strong evidence that the large language models are actively copying the data which, in the absence of a licence or exemption, is pretty much the dictionary definition of copyright violation.

We need to remember that no music creator is anti-technology. They just want (and deserve) to be paid for the use of their work.

Read more at: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-industry-recall-copyright-books