Three visual artists are suing artificial intelligence image-generators to protect their copyrights and careers.

Visual artists fight back against AI companies for repurposing their work::Three visual artists are suing artificial intelligence image-generators to protect their copyrights and careers.

  • Random_Character_A@lemmy.worldEnglish
    85·
    1 year ago

    This is a tough one, because they are not directly making money from the copyrighted material.

    Isn’t this a bit same as using short samples of somebodys song in your own song or somebody getting inspired from somebodys artwork and creating something similar.

    • FireTower@lemmy.worldEnglish
      82·
      1 year ago

      If you’re sampling music you aught to be compensating the licence holder unless it’s public domain or your work is under a fair use exception.

      • lunarul@lemmy.worldEnglish
        52·
        1 year ago

        Sampling music is literally placing parts of that music in the final product. Gen AI is not placing pieces of other people’s art in the final image, in fact it doesn’t store any image data at all. Using an image in the training data is akin to an artist including that image on their moodboard. Except the AI’s moodboard has way more images and the odds of the work being too similar to a single particular image is lower than when a human does it.

      • joe@lemmy.worldEnglish
        53·
        1 year ago

        Are you speaking legally or morally when you say someone “aught” to do something?