Can i get context without digging through piles of legal speak, so I can pass it on to my kid who is studying game dev? Is this art assets, code, both, more, less? I know he's talked about using bits of existant code as a shortcut.

The litigation is about image generators trained on copyrighted work without permission. The plaintiffs asserted claims of direct and indirect infringement under the Copyright Act, DMCA violations, unjust enrichment, and Lanham Act violations (false endorsement.) The defendants moved to dismiss...

Art assets in this specific case. But also bear in mind that "existing code" =/= "generative AI". Almost all programming builds off code that was built by others- that's what StackOverflow and similar sites are for. GenAI uses patterns to figure out what it should say, often incorrectly.