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People are ‘blatantly stealing my work,’ AI artist complains - with notes on a similar appeal that failed hard just recently (pivot-to-ai.com)

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[–] dgerard@awful.systems 23 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

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?"

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's Tornado Cash, but for pictures of Garfield with a machete.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 3 weeks ago

North Korea: "AUGH MY EYES"