I’ve written and started using this policy:
https://sciactive.com/human-contribution-policy/
Feel free to use it as is or adapt it as needed in your projects, or propose it to other open source projects. It’s got clear definitions of what is not allowed, so it should help eliminate any confusion.
Fascinating talk.
According to the U.S. copyright office and Library of Congress, copyrighted works require a ‘human’ element: https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/LSB10922
If art generated by AI can not be copyrighted, it may well extend to AI-generated code. If so, the implications could be pretty far-reaching.
The one, practical use-case of AI that has found ‘product market fit’ so far has been using AI for coding. Companies are encouraging it. Developers (including experienced ones) are starting to use more of it. But if it turns out none of the generated output can be copyrighted, then you lose all the commercial users who are the revenue sources for all these tools and companies.
This talk feels like it’s touching on a pretty important topic.
To be fair, this doesn’t mean you can’t use AI as a tool. An artist or a software developer can generate things with AI and orchestrate the pieces to become a new whole. That whole could still be copyrighted.
Probably not. The Copyright Office maintains that merely prompting the AI, even prompting it further to alter the output, is not enough creative control to grant copyrights to its output. I’ve put the most relevant quotes here:
https://sciactive.com/human-contribution-policy/#More-Information
In that case the “orchestrate the pieces” part is copyrightable if it reaches a minimum threshold of creativity but the pieces themselves are still not copyrightable because a human still didn’t make them??
Some highlights from this talk: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-docs/issues/413#issuecomment-4105667974 Quote: “Obvious, this is a copyright infringement.”
This was linked in the discussion there, and I think I’m a fan: https://sciactive.com/human-contribution-policy/
I’m definitely considering adding something like this to my projects.
