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Everything Made By an AI Is In the Public Domain (doctorow.medium.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am not sure that "touch-ups" are considered creative enough alterations to be able to copyright the resultant work. Minor touch-ups do not seem to be at least.

What is interesting is this copyright claim is far more damning for AI work than the case that all these articles going around are making. Though I don't know if this has been tested in court yet.

it basically claims that since AI generated images are hard to predict there is not a strong enough chain between the prompt and the result that shows you have enough of an influence over the generated image. And that generating lots of images until one matches what you envisioned is also not good enough, like how searching the internet for an image that matches what you envisioned does not give you copyright over it.

It also shows that minor alterations are not enough to claim copyright on the image.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

it basically claims that since AI generated images are hard to predict there is not a strong enough chain between the prompt and the result that shows you have enough of an influence over the generated image. And that generating lots of images until one matches what you envisioned is also not good enough, like how searching the internet for an image that matches what you envisioned does not give you copyright over it.

Interesting, isn't this a direct consequence of knowing the general procedure a generative AI follows but not the individual steps it takes or works it leverages? If there was proper sourcing at every step you could actually have control and finesse on the output. But because the specific actions aren't documented, you're unable to move the algorithm in a specific enough direction to claim ownership.