Summary
Whether you think they’re legitimate artistic creations or artistically derivative and plagiaristic, AI-generated images exist in a strange legal limbo that no governmental body has yet to disentangle. Yet one artist may be breaking new ground while opening up an even bigger can of worms for ownership in our progressively AI-driven world. Shutterstock CEO Paul Hennessy said they were “taking steps to look at the impact AI-generated art has on our consumers and contributors.” The U.S. Copyright Office has so far denied any application for AI to copyright the art it generates, noting before that it “lacks the human authorship necessary to support a copyright claim.” It’s led to criticism from the art community that AI-image generators are plagiarizing their work, which makes the idea of monetizing the images, let alone copyrighting them, all the more problematic. Emad Mostaque, head of Stability AI and creator of the Stable Diffusion image generator, has shrugged off concerns these systems will hurt real artists. I personally see less harm, or at least mitigated harm, if these images are relegated to their own proprietary image hosting sites.
Show Notes
Kashtanova wrote that their graphic novel was made using Midjourney, which is noted on the front page of the graphic novel. AI art relies on freely available images online, so basing a character off a famous actress in prompts can be a way to build consistency between images. The sole author is shown as Kashtanova, which compared to previous attempts to get copyright on AI art which named the AI as the sole author. The news followed from earlier reports that fellow image hosting site Shutterstock and Getty were quietly removing all AI images. We’ve included a list of websites that have outright banned AI art, and a few more that should probably figure out a stated policy, and soon.
Source
https://gizmodo.com/ai-art-shutterstock-getty-fur-infinity-1849574917
