AI-Created Art Isn’t Copyrightable, U.S. Judge Says in Ruling That Could Give Hollywood Studios Pause
AI-Created Art Isn’t Copyrightable, U.S. Judge Says in Ruling That Could Give Hollywood Studios Pause

AI-Created Art Isn’t Copyrightable, Judge Says in Ruling That Could Give Hollywood Studios Pause

Actually in the age of basically permanent copyrigt, this brings at least some balance
Yes, absolutely. They want AI to be people such that copyright applies and such that they can claim the AI was inspired just like a human artist is by the art they're exposed to.
We need a license model such that AI is only allowed to be trained on content were the license explicitly permits it and that no mention is equal to it being disallowed.
That is the default model behind copyright, which basically says that the only things people can use your copyrighted work for without a license are those which are determined to be "fair use".
I don't see any way in which today's AI ought to be considered fair use of other people's writings, artwork, etc.
I feel two ways about it. Absolutely it is recorded in a retrieval system and doing some sort of complicated lookup. So derivative.
On the other hand, the whole idea of copyright or other so called IP except maybe trademarks and trade dress in the most limited way is perverse and should not exist. Not that I have a better idea.
It is not.
Stable Diffusion's model was trained using the LAION-5B dataset, which describes five billion images. I have the resulting AI model on my hard drive right now, I use it with a local AI image generator. It's about 5 GB in size. So unless StabilityAI has come up with a compression algorithm that's able to fit an entire image into a single byte, there is no way that it's possible for this process to be "doing some sort of complicated lookup" of the training data.
What's actually happening is that the model is being taught high-level concepts through repeatedly showing it examples of those concepts.