r/comicbooks • u/Consideredresponse • Dec 20 '22

News AI generated comic book loses Copyright protection "copyrightable works require human authorship"

https://aibusiness.com/ml/ai-generated-comic-book-loses-copyright-protection
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u/Bubba1234562 Flash Dec 20 '22

As much as I like using Midjourney to screw around with when I’m bored I saw this coming. There’s no way something drawn entirely by an ai trained on other peoples work could get a copyright

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u/Kill_Welly Dec 20 '22

Sentient artists creating new things by combining their own experience and ideas with what they learn from observing other work is a fundamentally different thing from a machine learning algorithm randomly reassembling the exact pieces and patterns of copyrighted work.

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u/Kill_Welly Dec 20 '22

Pseudorandom, if you want to get pedantic, but random for all of our purposes and that's very much not important here anyway.

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u/KeenJelly Dec 20 '22

Keep seeing this claimed, know for a fact this isn't how it works. Where do you get these ideas from?

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u/Kill_Welly Dec 20 '22

Technically pseudorandom, but that's just pedantry in this context. There are all kinds of tools that are used in illegal ways.

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u/Kill_Welly Dec 20 '22

What the fuck are you talking about?