That’s not how any of this works. Copyright is a legal concept, not a technological one. You can’t strip the copyright off something by deleting part of it; the result is still a derivative work.
It’s not what the paper is about at all, seems this is just shit journalism again.
All the paper says about copyright is that this method is more secure because AI can sometimes spit out training examples.
Why… why is it more secure? Does it mean AI training is actively abusing copyright law? And this is more secure because they can hide it better?
I feel like this changes nothing. All they did was apply another algorithm to the copyrighted work before feeding it to the AI.
That algorithm masks the original work so it looks different to the human eye, but the AI still gets what it needs from it, and it still needs the real picture, made by a human who didn’t get credit.