A rule against copyrighting AI art will be unworkable.

I’ve generally been against giving AI works copyright, but this article presented what I felt were compelling arguments for why I might be wrong. What do you think?

  • luciole (he/him)@beehaw.org
    18·
    2 years ago

    The strongest argument against AI art is that it is derivative of the copyrighted art it is based on. A photo of a copyrighted artwork would be similarly difficult to copyright. In this sense, AI art is more akin to music sampling in that it uses original material to make something new – and to sample music you must ask permission.

    • FlowVoid@midwest.socialEnglish
      7·
      2 years ago

      You can’t copyright AI-generated art even if it was only trained with images in the public domain.

      In fact, you can’t copyright AI-generated art even it was only trained with images that you made.

    • intensely_human@lemm.ee
      2·
      2 years ago

      I bet you could build a machine that could recognize subject matter from photographs of it more feasibly than you could build a machine that recognized training data from output