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Do you really think it's OK to seed an AI with other people's work, generate strikingly similar images with it, pass them as real and farm engagement from that? Because that's the trend this article is about.
Maybe try reading the article next time 🥴 it goes into much more detail about how the photos are manipulated from the originals to try and hide the theft.
That's right, taking someone's creation and putting it through AI or any other image manipulator or whatever then it could be "your image", but claiming the creation depicted within that image is yours is stealing the original artist's work.
If these are made by using img2img, then they used a photograph from this guy. He's in the UK, so as an individual taking a photograph of his statue, that photograph is automatically considered copyrighted and he legally is (in theory) able to control its distribution. So, the image WAS illegally obtained.
It's stolen in the fact that these people are using Image-2-Image generative AI. That means that his original image is directly used as an input to make the resulting pictures, which then compete against his original image for attention on the internet. Fewer people will then see his original, and perhaps purchase one of his carvings.
Is it "real" theft? No Does it harm him? Yes
It's a very tricky situation, given that there's no way to stop it. We cannot shove this back into Pandora's box. Even if you made it illegal, it would be almost impossible to enforce in a court because of the lack of jurisdiction across borders.
I suspect our culture is about to see a seismic shift again, I just don't know how yet.
Even if we rewind to before the advent of AI generated images, if someone were to take his photo of his art, and painstakingly use Photoshop to create a believable second image with a different person standing next to it representing it as their own without giving him any credit, we would call that process "stealing".
No, we would call it copyright infringement if it indeed was. Or if not that you would have to find some other specific legal theory.
Stealing generally applies to property and intellectual property is a misleading term used to describe certain other rights not related to property law.
No.