People are ‘blatantly stealing my work,’ AI artist complains - with notes on a similar appeal that failed hard just recently
People are ‘blatantly stealing my work,’ AI artist complains - with notes on a similar appeal that failed hard just recently
AI artist Jason Allen submitted some Midjourney output, “Theatre D’Opera Spatial,” to the digital art category of the Colorado State Fair fine arts competition in 2022. He won, to some controversy.…
We all know what it means when Midjourney churns out pictures that look like your art: their model got trained on your stuff. I think it’s time for Jason Allen to go full uroboros and sue Midjourney for using his art without permission.
They're so close to figuring it out but don't have that much self awareness, or perhaps just have cognitive disonance about it.
AI artist Jason Allen
Absolute degenerate.
I have also spent some time screwing around with AI art generators. No way I'm addressing my self as an artist for it. AI art can be useful in certain situations such as whipping together a stupid meme to share between some friends. It's not any talent involved, and it's not something you should consider as copyright worthy.
Creating nice art is available to anyone. It just require some creativity and talent if you want to love of it. Being an artist is not some basic human right. As plenty of "artists" believe.
AI artists are just the new version of "fractal artists" who for the most part just pick a color palette and run a Mandelbrot generator until they find an appealing image.
It's not nothing but it's not going to get you very far.
Thank heavens we have people like you to police who gets to be called an artist or not...
Your position seems to be that art is whatever the US Copyright Office deems worthy of copyright.
Thank heavens we have people like you to police who gets to be called the police...
"All Allen could copyright was what he did to the image himself" - so if he trained the model himself, would that make the work copyrightable? Does that mean midjourney has the copyright of all the images created with it?
so if he trained the model himself, would that make the work copyrightable?
I think if he "trained" the model on art he himself created you might have an argument.
The image gatcha does not create a new copyright. There might be a copyright in the text of a complex prompt (do you feel lucky in court?) Mere "sweat of the brow" does not generate a new copyright in the US, so e.g. retouching work on a photo does not generate a new copyright and photos of a public domain artwork do not create a new copyright.
This doesn't touch on the old copyrights of the stuff Midjourney trained on to make its computer-mediated collages. Those copyrights still exist.
Does the computer-mediated collage launder the previous copyrights? The answer is "do you feel lucky in court?"