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"Famous" AI Artist Says He's Losing Millions of Dollars From People Stealing His Work

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The guy who used Midjourney to create an award-winning piece of AI art demands copyright protections.

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“This isn’t going to stop,” Allen told the New York Times. “Art is dead, dude. It’s over. A.I. won. Humans lost.”
"But I still want to get paid for it."

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"Famous" AI Artist Says He's Losing Millions of Dollars From People Stealing His Work

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Famous AI "Artist" Says He's Losing Millions of Dollars From People Stealing His Work

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per Wikipedia
On September 21, 2022, Allen submitted an application to the us copyright office for registration of the image. Prior to the first formal refusal, the Copyright Office Examiner requested that the request would exclude any features of the image generated by Midjourney. Allen declined the request and requested copyright for the whole image.
So what I'm getting from that is his Photoshop edits aren't significant enough to constitute a copyrightable work on their own and the copyright office was right to deem it a non-human production.
- I'm just happy someone at the copyright office knows what they're doing
  
  This has been the copyright office's stance for quite a while now. Actually, most of the world's respective IP registrars and authorities do not grant IP rights to AI generated material.
  
  I'm glad about this, honestly.
  If you want to use an AI model trained on vast sums of publicly posted work, go for it, but be ready for the result to be made into a truly public work that you don't own at the end of it all.
  
  I agree. I think the effective entry into the public domain of AI generated material, in combination with a lot of reporting/marking laws coming online is an effective incentive to keep a lot of material human made for large corporate actors who don't like releasing stuff from their own control.
  What I'd like to see in addition to this is a requirement that content-producing models all be open source as well. Note, I don't think we need weird new IP rights that are effectively a "right to learn from" or the like.
  
  I'm 100% in favor of requiring models to be open source. That's been my belief for a while now, because clearly, if someone wants to make an AI model off the backs of other people's work, they shouldn't be allowed to restrict or charge access to those models to the same people who had their work used, let alone other people more broadly.
  
  Oh sweet summer child...
  
  Oh tired reddit catchphrase...
  
  Bless your heart.

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