Artists and researchers are exposing copyrighted material hidden within A.I. tools, raising fresh legal questions.

We Asked A.I. to Create the Joker. It Generated a Copyrighted Image.::Artists and researchers are exposing copyrighted material hidden within A.I. tools, raising fresh legal questions.

  • RentlarEnglish
    12•10 months ago

    When they asked for an Italian video game character it returned something with unmistakable resemblance to Mario with other Nintendo property like Luigi, Toad etc. … so you don’t even have to ask for a “screencapture” directly for it to use things that are clearly based on copyrighted characters.

    • @sir_reginaldEnglish
      13•10 months ago

      you’re still asking for a character from a video game, which implies copyrighted material. write the same thing in google and take a look at the images. you get what you ask for.

      you can’t, obviously, use any image of Mario for anything outside fair use, no matter if AI generated or you got it from the internet.

      • @fuckwit_mcbumcrumbleEnglish
        0•10 months ago

        Also ask literally any human and they’ll probably name Mario first. Not just top 10, number 1.

        • @sir_reginaldEnglish
          1•10 months ago

          you need permission to profit off of the works of others.

          but that’s exactly what I said. you can’t grab an image of Mario from google and profit from it as you can’t draw a fan art of Mario and profit from it as well as you can’t generate an image of Mario and profit from it.

          It doesn’t matter if you’re generating it with software or painting it on canvas, if it contains intellectual property of others, you can’t (legally) use it for profit.

          however, generating it and posting it as a meme on the internet falls under fair use, just like using original art and making a meme.

    • JilanicoEnglish
      8•10 months ago

      If you asked me to draw an Italian video game character, I’d draw Mario too. Why can’t an AI make copyrighted character inspired pics as long as they aren’t being sold?

      • @[email protected]English
        0•10 months ago

        Well that’s exactly the problem. If people use AI generated images for commercial purposes they may accidentally infringe on someone else’s copyright. Since AI models are a black box there isn’t really a good way to avoid this.