The lack of clear conclusion suggests a new likeness misuse wave is coming though I doubt it.
AI's super power is melding many styles to better effect. My scraped up social media artworks are being considered to such a minuscule degree by the LLM that my likeness is lost unless someone tries to hone in and pass it off as me by legacy means.
None of this is worth upsetting the delicate balance of public journalism vs privacy laws as the article alludes to.
The concern I have is less around using emulating a work and more around not compensating or crediting those whose work has been taken to enrich these companies.
How much work has been stolen and exploited by the more powerful for their own gain? Lots I'm sure. Justifying mistakes of the present by normalizing the sins of the past is a weak-willed argument.
