A New Contract for Artists in the Age of Generative AI::A new framework will enable greater control over the use of artists’ data when artists share their work online, says Eryk Salvaggio.
How is an AI trained on an artists painting, any different from a person who looked at that painting in art school? It’s not like the AI contains all of its training data; you can prove that from the file sizes.
I’m all for what the article advocates, but it’s kind of like publishing a book and saying “you have a license to read this, but not to learn anything from it”
I’m afraid this is going to turn out like “a new contract for typewriter repairmen in the age of laptop computers”
Because people iterate and machine learning algorithms only copy
there is no new information, it’s just regurgitating bits and pieces of what it was fed.
So its less about induvidual cases and more about the overall result, as far as I can tell there are several major obstacles and we need to figure out some kind of solution that addresses all of them.
- AI can only remix, it can remix some pretty incredible things but at the end of the day you still need fresh input from human artists to stop it from getting stagnant so we need to incentivize that somehow.
- AI can (deliberately or accidentally) create near identical copies of existing works, how similar is too similar before thats considered copyright infringement.
- Can AI art be copyrighted? if yes then what stops someone putting a huge server farm to the task of generating every possible distinct image within some fairly common categories and subsiquently patent trolling basically everyone.
- If AI art can’t be copyrighted whats the ratio of human to AI art before it becomes uncopyrightable, can I effectively nullify someone elses legitimate copyright by creating a similar but automatically non-copyright AI derived duplicate.
I’m sure more obstacles can be forseen depending on how pedantic you want to get, and the problem with people is that a certain subsection of the population will absoloutely make a whole career of being pedantic as hell to the detriment of everybody else.
I don’t think we can compare human learning to AI one.
Tho u are in a way right. Those ppl don’t protest the AI, they protest progress.
