The model is a massive part of the AI-ecosystem, used by Stable Diffusion and other major generative AI products. The removal follows discoveries made by Stanford researchers, who found thousands instances of suspected child sexual abuse material in the dataset.
“Copyright violation” is probably the wording you’re looking for. Copyright violation is not taking or theft or stealing or any of those other words - it’s copyright violation.
Whether training an AI on a copyrighted work without permission of the copyright holder is a violation of copyright is something that is debatable. But it most definitely is not stealing or theft. Theft is covered by completely different laws.
“Copyright violation” is probably the wording you’re looking for. Copyright violation is not taking or theft or stealing or any of those other words - it’s copyright violation.
Whether training an AI on a copyrighted work without permission of the copyright holder is a violation of copyright is something that is debatable. But it most definitely is not stealing or theft. Theft is covered by completely different laws.
Unless you feel like being a pedant, copyright infringement is also known as content theft.
https://www.deviantart.com/team/journal/Calling-All-Creator-Platforms-to-Fight-Art-Theft-901238948