Much like Naruto, the famous selfie - snapping black crested macaque, the Trees debacle raises a number of questions of how the Copyright Act of 1976 and DMCA's Fair Use doctrine should be applied to a rapidly
evolving technological culture, especially as AI and machine learning techniques approach ubiquity.
Though some observers, including multiple - intelligences guru Howard Gardner, point to schools as the «conservators» of our
culture, and therefore instinctively conservative in what they do, the resistance comes more from the fact that our public school system has
evolved an extremely delicate balance between many sets of pressures — political, parental, social, organizational, supervisory, and financial — that any
technological change is bound to disrupt.