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Famous AI "Artist" Says He's Losing Millions of Dollars From People Stealing His Work (gizmodo.com)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The guy who used Midjourney to create an award-winning piece of AI art demands copyright protections.

Excuse me while I go grab my popcorn.

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

One of the reasons I like AI art is that it's pretty settled law that something produced by purely "mechanical" means can't itself have copyright, since copyright requires both originality and a human author.

It seems like a reasonably compromise, the AI was created by hoovering up the commons, so anything it creates should belong to the commons. I expect a lot of lobbying in the future to try and change it though.

[–] SlopppyEngineer 25 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

And if AI work would be copyrighted by the "prompt artist" then all the artists whose work is in the training set can sue the prompter for profiting of their work without licensing fees. It would be a legal clusterfuck so it was pretty wise to side step the whole issue.