https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/ai-image-generators-output-copyrighted-characters
AI image generators play fast and loose with copyrighted characters
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/ai-image-generators-output-copyrighted-characters
but mickey mouse isn't a copyrighted character
cool your jets, anon
idk what that means but mickey isn't copyrighted
the modern mickey mouse is. It's only the first generation design that is public domain now.
>person draws mickey mouse and darth vader smoking pot
This is fine.
>computer generates mickey mouse and darth vader smoking pot
This is a problem.
The first one isn't legal either.
It just goes under the radar, if you're selling fanart you're literally doing copyright infringement.
>The first one isn't legal either.
It absolutely is legal.
What would be illegal would be selling it or otherwise profiting from it.
No, it's still illegal even if you doodle in your notebook and never show it to anyone.
Thankfully copyright infringement is an civil and not criminal matter until you start selling it.
The only reason artists get away with it is because it's free marketing.
All the more reason to abolish copyright
>No, it's still illegal even if you doodle in your notebook and never show it to anyone.
No. Fair use is a thing and has been defended many times.
Making derivative works has never been protected under fair use.
Absolutely has been.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seltzer_v._Green_Day,_Inc
You are objectively incorrect
I think what most people fail to realise is that no matter how many similarities or differences we bring to the stable in the human vs gAI discourse, one fatal argument is being often omitted.
It's the oversaturation that is the problem. The gAI shit is oversaturating the market with copies of copies and other synthetic generations. The potential rammifications of this phenomenom might bite everyone in the ass, both AI-crowd and the organic artists as in time more people learn of what the gAI tech is capable of in a matter of mere seconds. I can't name them now since it's an unprecedented event, but as history goes, oversaturation doesn't improve anything in the long run.
How'd south park get away with it then
both of these things are fine. Once you start making money off of it, you are breaking the law. You have to give some of that money to the people who own the characters.
if the AI draws them for free than you're fine, but if you require credits to draw AI pictures like Microsoft does then technically some of those credits need to be paid to the characters rightful owners
Why is the general public supposed to give a frick about this? Poor Disney? Frick off
It's some astro turfing by journalists and artists that afraid of losing their jobs
So this is what tomshardware is up to these days. Grim.
>i see cartoon
>it affects my brain
>i draw a character
>character is influenced by cartoon
cool
>algorithm sees cartoon
>it affects the weights
>it draws a character
>character is influenced by cartoon
NO!
do artists and IP holders really think that their content was formed in a perfect creative vacuum? all IP is "inspired" by prior art.
kek art gays just frick off. we don't need you to make the logo anymore, ai homie got that covered
I don't care do you?
Seems like fair use to me.
>ai art is now banned in usa
>people keep using and developing ai outside of the us
>people who dont care about copyright keep using ai in the us
wat now