Hollywood’s hyperbole has echoed that of composer John Phillip Sousa：https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2009/10/100-years-of-big-content-fearing-technologyin-its-own-words/, who claimed in 1906 that the player piano and the gramophone would destroy music composition; portrait artists who feared the camera：https://daily.jstor.org/did-photography-really-kill-portrait-painting/ would replace the paintbrush. None of these things happened. Cameras, for example, sparked a resurgence of portraiture and, by making it possible for more people to create images, led to unexpected developments—like the rise of photojournalism.
And the plaintiffs in these cases get at least two other things wrong. First, research：https://news.mit.edu/2026/when-ai-art-has-no-author-generated-images-often-cant-be-traced-to-training-data-0818 shows that large generative AI models are unlikely to produce infringing works because the more data on which a model is trained, the less any individual training example matters to any particular output.
Second, AI tools aren’t necessarily displacing human creativity. To take a just a few examples:
It is not the place of courts to say these people are not artists or that AI cannot augment human creativity in a positive way.
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