The guy who used Midjourney to create an award-winning piece of AI art demands copyright protections.
Excuse me while I go grab my popcorn.
How much did the real artists lose out on in order to train the AI?
How is he losing millions of dollars? If you’re just trying to get into the art fraud money laundering scheme thing then make an NFT and find an idiot. But just the creation of a piece (be it traditional, digital, or “ai”) doesn’t entitle you to a payout. And if you’re just complaining about the dissemination of the piece you asked someone else’s computer to generate for you without a kick back link tax, well–that’s not how copyright, the internet, or normal human correspondence works.
Ah, good ol’ music industry math. “1,000 people downloaded a picture that I created, and I wanted to charge $1,000 a piece, so I lost $1,000,000.” In reality of course charging $0.02 would’ve stopped most sales.
Yeah, articles are including the image because they can. If a judge had instead ruled that AI generated works were copyrightable (and to the prompter, not the designer of the tool, owner of the hardware, or even the tool itself) the end result would be that very few orgs would include his piece instead just opting for generating their own (now copyrightable) image to use as an example. He’d still get nothing, but then significantly fewer people would see his “work.”
Read headline, ok. Look for Onion source… fuck.
I make props, armour, movie replicas as a hobby. I do it all by hand.
I get a bit of an eyeball twitch when someone shows me a prop and goes “I made this too” “of yeah, what did you use as a base material?” “Oh it’s 3d printed” “oh so your printer made it…”
id consider them making it if they were also the one who designed the 3d object without taking someone elses work. if they just downloaded a model, made minor changes than print it, I would not consider it their work.
Yeah, I spend hours digitally sculpting parts sometimes, and then once it’s printed I spend hours filling and sanding the build lines and painting. Having also built parts by hand, they’re equally skilled work in different ways. Digital sculpting is just a lot less messy which means it’s much easier for me to do at home, lol. Do not miss the days of hand-sculpting foam and making silicone molds and fiberglass parts.
He’s losing imaginary, A.I generated money.
Waah.
Ah yes, the incredibly popular pro-AI pro-copyright stance. He’s going to get very far with that one.
Haha
If he is considered “Artist” I am too.
I can generate Mandelbrot pictures that no one else has ever seen. That doesn’t make me an artist.
LMAO!!!
Next.
I’m in the same boat. Every time someone reads one of my comments and doesn’t pay me for it, that’s money out of my pocket. It’s a hard life being an internet commenter these days.
You are now reading mine.
Is this a valid 1:1 exchange? Or are you willing to pay me extra for my response?
Please accept this drawing of a spider: *
Thanks
You owe them based on word count, line count, and character count.
You laugh but I seriously think people should be getting a cut if they are building a non-open LLM by commenting.
Member how people defended free price of gmail? I member.
The “artist”:
[Nelson Laugh]
Fuck him.
