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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] 102 points 2 months ago (7 children)

First off, stop calling him an AI artist.

[–] thesporkeffect 23 points 2 months ago

The term is apparently prompt-fondler now.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Calling someone a prompt "engineer" should be punishable by law.

[–] iAvicenna 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

meanwhile startups: prompt coder/wizard!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

please call them rockstars i want to see them suffer the way real programmers did

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[–] Mango 7 points 2 months ago

Yeah, he is neither is those words. I wouldn't even say the 'I' applies.

[–] NateNate60 6 points 2 months ago

But...

The AI is the artist!

Not sure what this other guy is doing though.

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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.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

I'm in the same boat. Every time someone reads one of my comments and doesn't pay me for it, that's money out of my pocket. It's a hard life being an internet commenter these days.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

You laugh but I seriously think people should be getting a cut if they are building a non-open LLM by commenting.

Member how people defended free price of gmail? I member.

[–] AFreeLarryHoover 49 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

AI art might not be real, but Sonic giving birth to Borat is an extremely cool concept that people should be celebrated for drawing

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Dude, you can’t end it in such a rad way and expect us to despise the prompt input guy.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago

This is actually the art bit, right? He’s doing conceptual art, like that Banksy that shredded itself upon sale.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oh no, the consequences of your own actions! That art competition should just add a rule "only copyrightable works"

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Apparently, the competition was a year before that ruling.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

And he's still crying about it?

[–] GraniteM 28 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The "artist":

[–] TommySoda 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"Famous AI 'Prompter' Says He's Losing Millions of Dollars From People Stealing His Stolen Work."

Seems like you did this to yourself, bud. You're just mad you didn't get paid enough for stealing.

[–] Repelle 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

“Famous” is accurate, but change to “Infamous” and it’s perfect.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

He sure to become "infamous" now.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago

If he is considered "Artist" I am too.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How is he losing millions of dollars? If you're just trying to get into the art fraud money laundering scheme thing then make an NFT and find an idiot. But just the creation of a piece (be it traditional, digital, or "ai") doesn't entitle you to a payout. And if you're just complaining about the dissemination of the piece you asked someone else's computer to generate for you without a kick back link tax, well--that's not how copyright, the internet, or normal human correspondence works.

[–] SlopppyEngineer 25 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Ah, good ol' music industry math. "1,000 people downloaded a picture that I created, and I wanted to charge $1,000 a piece, so I lost $1,000,000." In reality of course charging $0.02 would've stopped most sales.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Yeah, articles are including the image because they can. If a judge had instead ruled that AI generated works were copyrightable (and to the prompter, not the designer of the tool, owner of the hardware, or even the tool itself) the end result would be that very few orgs would include his piece instead just opting for generating their own (now copyrightable) image to use as an example. He'd still get nothing, but then significantly fewer people would see his "work."

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I'm collecting all his tears to cook a big pot of pasta. Not sure how anyone would make "millions of dollars" from a single artwork anyway.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

its probably fictionally calculated like sales are to piracy. just because someone pirated a game/software doesnt mean they would have bought said thing at asking price had the piracy option not existed.

[–] Valmond 3 points 2 months ago

Be an 1880 impressionnist, paint an artwork, die.

Now it's worth a million, possibly.

[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds 3 points 2 months ago

This is the schadenfreude I needed to get through my day

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

[Nelson Laugh]

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

How much did the real artists lose out on in order to train the AI?

[–] SacredHeartAttack 15 points 2 months ago

lol get fucked loser. (the "artist", not OP)

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

Lol, lmao even

[–] CoolGirl586 13 points 2 months ago
[–] Mango 11 points 2 months ago

LMAO!!!!

Next.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

He is not being the neighborly neighbor Mr Rogers wanted him to be.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Read headline, ok. Look for Onion source... fuck.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Oh I sure hope he sets a bad legal precedent for AI "art".

[–] blackjam_alex 7 points 2 months ago

He's losing imaginary, A.I generated money.

[–] Buddahriffic 3 points 2 months ago

Ah yes, the incredibly popular pro-AI pro-copyright stance. He's going to get very far with that one.

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