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"Famous" AI Artist Says He's Losing Millions of Dollars From People Stealing His Work (gizmodo.com)

submitted 10 months ago by cypherpunks@lemmy.ml to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/3613920

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Get fuuuuuuuuuuuuuucked

“This isn’t going to stop,” Allen told the New York Times. “Art is dead, dude. It’s over. A.I. won. Humans lost.”

"But I still want to get paid for it."

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[–] GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 10 months ago (8 children)

It should be as copyrightable as the prompt. If the prompt is something super generic, then there's no real work done by the human. If the prompt is as long and unique as other copyrightable writing (which includes short works like poems) then why shouldn't it be copyrightable?

[–] ImADifferentBird@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (5 children)

Because it wasn't created by a human being.

If I ask an artist to create a work, the artist owns authorship of that work, no matter how long I spent discussing the particulars of the work with them. Hours? Days? Months? Doesn't matter. They may choose to share or reassign some or all of the rights that go with that, but initial authorship resides with them. Why should that change if that discussion is happening not with an artist, but with an AI?

The only change is that, not being a human being, an AI cannot hold copyright. Which means a work created by an AI is not copyrightable. The prompter owns the prompt, not the final result.

[–] desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone -2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

should a camera also own the copyright to the pictures it takes? (I seriously hate photographers)

[–] ImADifferentBird@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Ah, but there is a fundamental difference there. A photographer takes a picture, they do not tell the camera to take a picture for them.

It is the difference between speech and action.

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