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"Famous" AI Artist Says He's Losing Millions of Dollars From People Stealing His Work (gizmodo.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/3613920

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Get fuuuuuuuuuuuuuucked

“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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[–] [email protected] 110 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 76 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm just happy someone at the copyright office knows what they're doing

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Oh sweet summer child...

[–] [email protected] 33 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Oh tired reddit catchphrase...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

Bless your heart.