Artists and researchers are exposing copyrighted material hidden within A.I. tools, raising fresh legal questions.

We Asked A.I. to Create the Joker. It Generated a Copyrighted Image.::Artists and researchers are exposing copyrighted material hidden within A.I. tools, raising fresh legal questions.

    • Flying SquidEnglish
      1•8 months ago

      If I draw a very close picture to a screenshot of a Mickey Mouse cartoon and try to pass it off as original art because there are a handful of differences, I don’t think most people would buy it.

        • Flying SquidEnglish
          1•8 months ago

          It has relevance to what counts as an original artwork.

          This is what you said:

          It is original art, even the images in question have differences

          No it is not. They do not have enough differences to be considered original in any court of law.

            • Flying SquidEnglish
              1•8 months ago

              Again, VCRs and hard drives can’t create content. They can only capture content. AI can create content, but it is not always original. Which is the problem. No one is trying to sue them over things that are credibly original.

              It is no more legal for you to tell an AI to make you a picture of the Joker as it is to ask a human artist to do it. And if the human artist did it, WB/DC would be within their rights to take them to court because it would violate both trademark and copyright. They usually don’t, but they are within their rights.

              You can ask a VCR or a hard drive to draw you a picture of The Joker all day. They won’t because they can’t.

              If AI was only capable of creating original artworks, this would not be an issue.

                • Flying SquidEnglish
                  1•8 months ago

                  Nope. Camcorders do not create content. They record content. Camcorders do not create anything. That is a ridiculous claim. I cannot point a camcorder at you and have it make you look like Heath Ledger.

                  AI creates content. It can make things that literally don’t exist. If I tell it to make me Heath Ledger as The Joker fighting Jack Nicholson as the Joker, it can create it. A camcorder can’t. A VCR can’t. A hard drive can’t. I have no idea why you don’t understand the difference between creating content and recording content.

                  I also said nothing about the AI itself being illegal, so I also have no idea where you’re getting that from. I said it is violating copyright and trademark when it creates such images. Because it is.

                  Hence the lawsuits. Hence the lack of such lawsuits against camcorders, VCRs and hard drives.