Artists and researchers are exposing copyrighted material hidden within A.I. tools, raising fresh legal questions.

We Asked A.I. to Create the Joker. It Generated a Copyrighted Image.::Artists and researchers are exposing copyrighted material hidden within A.I. tools, raising fresh legal questions.

  • dragontamer@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    You don’t need to perform “for profit” to get sued for copyright infringement.

    but AI isn’t performing in public any more having a guitar with you in public is ripping off Metallica.

    Is the Joker image in that article derivative or substantially similar to a copyrighted work? Is the query available to anyone who uses Midjourney? Are the training weights being copied from server-to-server behind the scenes? Were the training weights derived from copyrighted data?

    • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      9 months ago

      Yes and none of that matters in the slightest. By that logic the Library of Babel is also copyright infringement. By that logic my memory of the movie is copyright infringing even if I don’t do anything with it.

      • dragontamer@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        9 months ago

        You’re taking a fictional work and trying to apply real world laws to it?

        Copyright assumes that Library of Babel would take up so much space as it’d be impossible to create.

        Which is true. Every possible combination of letters, spaces, and characters would never fit on anything in today’s universe (be it a 24 TB Hard Drive, or even a collection of thousands of them).

        Secondly: any computer-generated work is automatically non-copyrighted as per US Law.