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: In 2022, the legal landscape regarding AI and copyright was—and remains—highly unstable. Sites banned AI images to avoid potential legal complications regarding ownership and commercial rights [1, 3]. Timeline of Notable Bans (Late 2022)

The wave of bans on AI-generated art in 2022 by communities like , Inkblot , and FurAffinity was driven by a fundamental conflict between traditional digital art and the rapid influx of DALL-E and Midjourney creations. Key Reasons for the Bans : In 2022, the legal landscape regarding AI

: A major point of contention was that AI models were trained on datasets (like LAION-5B) containing millions of images without the original artists' permission. Communities banned AI to protect their members from what they viewed as "algorithmic plagiarism" [1, 2]. : In 2022