> There is no artwork included in Stable Diffusion.
You might as well say that there's no artwork included in a .jpg, just data that can be used to recreate a piece of artwork using a carefully crafted interpreter.
There's no artwork in the 1s and 0s. There's an artwork when you render it to a screen.
It is not a copyright infringement I go to Disney's website, download a JPEG, convert that JPEG to 1s and 0s, print just a bunch of 1s and 0s and not the image and not ascii art of the image, just like a printing press made up of just [1] and [0] character blocks, and sell that. Yes, the 1s and 0s are mathematically derived from the image but the image of 1s and 0s is not a visual derivative of the Disney image. That is, no one is going to buy a t-shirt of 1s and 0s instead of a Mickey t-shirt. Anyone can go to the Disney website and get those same 1s and 0s.
Again, anyone can go to the Disney website and get those same 1s and 0s, so this is not at all about access. This is about putting things on t-shirts and selling them.
> It is not a copyright infringement I go to Disney's website, download a JPEG,
Only because of applied license.
> convert that JPEG to 1s and 0s, print just a bunch of 1s and 0s
Yes, there is, barring context that maked it fair use (which is an exception that applies to things that would otherwise be violations), this is a fixed exact copy in an alternative form jist as much as a .zip or a lossless .png converted from the .jpg would be, and violates exclusive rights in copyright.
> Anyone can go to the Disney website and get those same 1s and 0s.
That’s an argument against damages, not against it being unauthorized copying.
Well luckily our courts follow de minimis non curat lex and Disney's lawyers know that and are otherwise uninterested in trying cases of free speech and artistic expression.
You might as well say that there's no artwork included in a .jpg, just data that can be used to recreate a piece of artwork using a carefully crafted interpreter.