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•10 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•10 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•10 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.

                • Flying SquidEnglish
                  1•10 months ago

                  Yes, there was a lawsuit against VCRs. It had nothing to do with original content.

                  AI trains on images (fair use)

                  Nope, that is not in any legal definition of fair use.

                  same as a brain, hard drive, VCR and an HDD.

                  What prompt do I enter to get a VCR to make me a picture of Jack Nicholson’s Joker fighting Heath Ledger’s Joker?

                  Do I press both rewind and fast forward at once to access the secret content generation menu?