You can't create Hollywood blockbusters or video games without huge, global industries working together to produce the tools and content. Popular media has biases and, clearly, social consequences as well—there's a reason people talk about how much "soft power" the US has!
And yet pop culture content is speech both in a casual and in a legal/policy sense.
AI models are not identical to movies or video games, but they're not different in any of the aspects you listed. On the other hand, there is a pretty clear difference between AI models and heavy machinery or architecture: AI models cannot directly hurt or kill people in the physical world. An AI model controlling a physical system could, which is a case to have strict regulations on things like self-driving cars, but doesn't apply to the text/image/etc generation models we're talking about here. Plans for heavy machinery or buildings are not regulated until somebody tries to create them in the real world (and are also very clearly speech, even if they took a lot of engineering effort to produce). At least in the US, nobody is going to stop you from publishing plans for arbitrarily dangerous tools or buildings with narrow exceptions for defense-critical technology.
And yet pop culture content is speech both in a casual and in a legal/policy sense.
AI models are not identical to movies or video games, but they're not different in any of the aspects you listed. On the other hand, there is a pretty clear difference between AI models and heavy machinery or architecture: AI models cannot directly hurt or kill people in the physical world. An AI model controlling a physical system could, which is a case to have strict regulations on things like self-driving cars, but doesn't apply to the text/image/etc generation models we're talking about here. Plans for heavy machinery or buildings are not regulated until somebody tries to create them in the real world (and are also very clearly speech, even if they took a lot of engineering effort to produce). At least in the US, nobody is going to stop you from publishing plans for arbitrarily dangerous tools or buildings with narrow exceptions for defense-critical technology.