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It's not an issue of copyright as terms of service. The images you create out of a pirate photoshop, you do own the copyright, but adobe can also go after you for the unrelated matter of illegally bypassing their DRM.

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But then when it's distributed, are the people who receive it are in the clear, whilst the original author gets pursued?

For example, can anyone now use GPT4All and there be nothing that OpenAI could do about it?

If you can sue someone for using stuff you copyrighted to train a model, "Open"AI won't be a thing in the first place. Moreover, "Open"AI doesn't have copyright on the outputs, only the terms of services stops the receiver of the output from developing competing products. If you received the subsequent product, there is nothing OpenAI can do to you because you didn't enter into an agreement with them in the first place. None of this involves any copyright.

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