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Generative AI Has a Visual Plagiarism Problem (spectrum.ieee.org)

submitted 10 months ago by L4s to c/technology

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Generative AI Has a Visual Plagiarism Problem::Experiments with Midjourney and DALL-E 3 show a copyright minefield

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[–] piecat 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Listen at 2:00, https://youtu.be/q0AcZkR_LUs?si=L-dbJasU5YRseIvD

I wouldn't call that "unrecognizable", it's pretty obvious what was sampled.

AI should be no different

I agree

The chemical brothers were sued for this one song that had recognizable infringement. And despite that instance of copying/sampling, and presumably listening to many many copyrighted works in their lifetime, that doesn't invalidate any of their other works.

Artists/musicians can also "accidentally" plagiarize, meaning they "came up with" a beat or lick, not recognizing that it is from something they've heard previously until someone says "hey isn't that xyz".

Either an output is or isn't infringing.

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[–] Ross_audio 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Different court case. Galvanize was not discovered by an AI.

Honestly there are so many successful and failed cases against them I can't find it right now. But I remember an AI discovered sample being subject of a court case just after one of them died.

[–] piecat 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Uhhhh the chemical brothers are alive. And I can't find anything about this online.

[–] Ross_audio 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's happened, like I say I can't find it either now. It might have been the copyright owner who died. But fans use AI to find samples in old songs now. You can do it yourself.

Unfortunately copyright claims get buried as they don't look good for either party.

In principle though, do you consider an unrecognisable sample copyright infringement. Because I get the feeling of I put the effort in to dig and cite examples for you, you'd then just move on to claiming it's still somehow different if AI does it.

[–] piecat 1 points 10 months ago

Nope, I do not consider an unrecognized sample as copyright infringement. Or, I don't believe it should be ruled as such by the courts.

If you can't reasonably recognize the source material, and it's so different that only AI looking at bits could identify similarities, that doesn't cross the threshold in my opinion.

I actually don't think most sampling should be considered infringement, assuming the new song is actually a new work.

It's all about how transformative the work is.