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So recently there has been a lot of debate on AI-generated art and its copyright. I’ve read a lot of comments recently that made me think of this video and I want to highly encourage everyone to watch it, maybe even watch it again if you already viewed it. Watch it specifically with the question “If an AI did it, would it change anything?”

Right now, AI-generated works aren’t copyrightable. https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/ai-generator-art-text-us-copyright-policy-1234661683/ This means you can not copyright the works produced by AI.

I work in games so this is more seemingly relevant to me than maybe it is to you. https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/03/valve-responds-to-claims-it-has-banned-ai-generated-games-from-steam/ Steam has outright said, earlier this month, that it will not publish games on its platform without understanding if the training data has been of images that aren’t public domain.

So right now, common AI is producing works that are potentially copyright-infringing works and are unable to be copyrighted themselves.

So with this information, should copyright exist, and if not, how do you encourage artists and scientists to produce works if they no longer can make a living off of it?

    • MJBrune@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I work in the games industry and can tell you AI isn’t going to get to the point any time soon to fully replace game artists. Likewise, I’m an engineer and chatgpt can generate code from prompts but it’s not very good. The 3d models that ai can generate are terrible. If you are a 3d artist you need not worry about ai.

        • MJBrune@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          I mean every industry right now is a race to the bottom. Everyone is trying to provide a product or service cheaper than their competitor. There are 8 billion people on this planet and everyone is trying to undercut someone else to get enough money to live.