The Copyright Office has a clear policy on AI.

An artist who infamously duped an art contest with an AI image is suing the U.S. Copyright Office over its refusal to register the image’s copyright.

In the lawsuit, Jason M. Allen asks a Colorado federal court to reverse the Copyright Office’s decision on his artwork Theatre D’opera Spatialbecause it was an expression of his creativity.

Reuters says the Copyright Office refused to comment on the case while Allen in a statement complains that the office’s decision “put me in a terrible position, with no recourse against others who are blatantly and repeatedly stealing my work.”

  • chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    What does the company protect here? The system, or the model? Which the latter being ill-gotten by scraping already copyrighted content?

    That depends on what is proprietary to the company. If they have created the system and the model, then both.

    The supposed artist is the commissioner and the LLM being the artist.

    That is a highly subjective point of view. Let’s look at music. If a musician loses their arms and can no longer play an instrument, but instead dictates the chords to someone else to play, who is the artist? Who can claim ownership of the piece?

    No, because as a photographer you hold the tool in your hand. You can adjust everything, even the subject. And its all in your own control and it takes your skill in managing it to shoot the perfect photo.

    Spoken like someone who has never used an LLM before and thinks it magically produces exactly what you want on the first time, every time.

    If we would take your interpretation of my definition, then nobody can own anything since they always have to use a tool to create something.

    No, that’s everyone else’s argument. Mine is that the tool is the LLM, and that when art is created with it, it should be open to copyright.