Why This Award-Winning Piece of AI Art Can’t Be Copyrighted::Matthew Allen’s AI art won first prize at the Colorado State Fair. But the US government has ruled it can’t be copyrighted because it’s too much “machine” and not enough “human.”

  • Dojan@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Given the presence of stolen artwork in the training data I don’t see why it should be copyright able.

    Also award winning? It honestly looks like the kind of liminal mindfuckery most models could output. There’s nothing particularly impressive with the piece.

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      10 months ago

      iirc it was submitted to a small art contest without disclosing it’s AI generated and it won a prize… which made a lot of people very mad

      • nandeEbisu@lemmy.world
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        10 months ago

        If this is the one in thinking of, they disclosed it was made using midjourney, but the judges didn’t know what that meant and didn’t ask.