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.

  • eric@lemmy.worldEnglish
    98·
    11 months ago

    You’re completely missing the point. Making money doesn’t change the legality. YouTube was threatened by the RIAA before they even started showing ads. Displaying an image from a copyrighted work on an AI platform is not much different technologically than Voyager or even Google Images displaying the same image, and both could also be interpreted as “feeding you unlicensed content from others.”

    • MadBigote@lemmy.worldEnglish
      81·
      11 months ago

      Making money doesn’t change the legality.

      Except that it actually does? That’s the point of copyright laws. The LLM/AIs are using copyright protected material as source without paying for it, and then selling it’s output as "original '.

      • wewbull@feddit.ukEnglish
        3·
        11 months ago

        Oh! That’s why torrent sites aren’t under constant threat despite hosting tons of free copyright material.

        Hang on… Yes they are!