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.
The “artist”:
I can generate Mandelbrot pictures that no one else has ever seen. That doesn’t make me an artist.
This is like piracy, just because you claim you loose money, doesn’t mean any sane being would pay you even if it was necessary, most would rather just not.
He’s not an artist though.
Prompt maker upper
Text input knuckler
This is actually the art bit, right? He’s doing conceptual art, like that Banksy that shredded itself upon sale.
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.
You are now reading mine.
Is this a valid 1:1 exchange? Or are you willing to pay me extra for my response?
Please accept this drawing of a spider: *
Thanks
You owe them based on word count, line count, and character count.
Fuck him.
First off, stop calling him an AI artist.
The term is apparently prompt-fondler now.
Calling someone a prompt “engineer” should be punishable by law.
In general it’s not used for AI artists but rather for developers doing advanced stuff with LLMs such as RAG etc…
meanwhile startups: prompt coder/wizard!
please call them rockstars i want to see them suffer the way real programmers did
It’s literally what they are !
Fun Fact: PE is actually a legally protected title (the P in a real engineer’s title stands for professional)
You can make art using AI. I’ve seen artists use it to clean up line art, color, shade, fill in backgrounds, and more. AI is just a tool. Lots of people only use text prompts, which I agree is hardly controlling, but that is only a single way to interact with AI. You can do a lot with these models.
All this is true, but none of it is relevant to a guy who’s demanding copyright protections and royalties for something Midjourney spat out.
I agree, but I wasn’t sure if this comment was generally anti-AI or understanding of the nuance. For the record, AI scares me.
But…
The AI is the artist!
Not sure what this other guy is doing though.
[Nelson Laugh]
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.
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.
Dude, you can’t end it in such a rad way and expect us to despise the prompt input guy.
AI art might not be real, but Sonic giving birth to Borat is an extremely cool concept that people should be celebrated for drawing
If he is considered “Artist” I am too.
Oh no, the consequences of your own actions! That art competition should just add a rule “only copyrightable works”
Apparently, the competition was a year before that ruling.
And he’s still crying about it?
“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.
“Famous” is accurate, but change to “Infamous” and it’s perfect.
I’m not even sure I’d consider him a guapo, much less El Guapo
He sure to become “infamous” now.
