Since a US district judge ruled that AI art was not copywrite-able (the ruling is a touch more complex than that, but let that go for the moment since the practical effect is to ban copywrite on AI created art.), people who wish to replace paying artists to make art with AI art have been arguing that AI should be copywrite-able even the law is clear on this point.
AI art is not created without a human having an idea and starting the process. Just like your paintbrush doesn't wake up in the middle of the night with an idea and start slapping cerulean on everything, my computers don't suddenly decide to fart out test grids of "Putin kissing a unicorn."
Many AI artists also do other art, and many (like me) have done art all our lives. We don't do it to make art that looks like somebody else's art so we don't have to pay them. We make art because we love to make art.
It's not only prompts, and it's not just putting pieces together from other art (the models don't save the images they're trained on.) There are several platforms, lots of models and bucketfuls of parameters. Most implementations let you input your own photos and sketches to further guide the output.
It is a lot like photography, initiated by a human, generated with parameters a human chooses, and the resulting images edited, tweaked, and curated by a human.
Programmers who write code that generates art are allowed to copyright the output. Eventually AI artists will be afforded the same respect, I hope, but I don't really care. I'll be making art anyway, for the joy of doing it.
AI art is not created without a human having an idea and starting the process. Just like your paintbrush doesn't wake up in the middle of the night with an idea and start slapping cerulean on everything, my computers don't suddenly decide to fart out test grids of "Putin kissing a unicorn."
Many AI artists also do other art, and many (like me) have done art all our lives. We don't do it to make art that looks like somebody else's art so we don't have to pay them. We make art because we love to make art.
It's not only prompts, and it's not just putting pieces together from other art (the models don't save the images they're trained on.) There are several platforms, lots of models and bucketfuls of parameters. Most implementations let you input your own photos and sketches to further guide the output.
It is a lot like photography, initiated by a human, generated with parameters a human chooses, and the resulting images edited, tweaked, and curated by a human.
Programmers who write code that generates art are allowed to copyright the output. Eventually AI artists will be afforded the same respect, I hope, but I don't really care. I'll be making art anyway, for the joy of doing it.