Article by IEEE Spectrum: The writers tested the two AI image generators MidJourney and Stable Diffusion, testing their abilities to generate imagery that closely resembled copyrighted material, which proves that the training data of the image generators had to contain copyrighted material. Implemented safeguards were largely unsuccessful to curb the output of potentially infringing images.
IA doesn’t copy/paste images, it creates internal concepts of images/labels & creates a random image & changes it until it’s in-line with it’s internal concepts. It’s not much different then if you asked an artist to draw something in someone’s else’s style, which Disney has done for years.
OpenAI admits that their AIs “regurgitate” content though.