Extrapolating on your legal comment, copyright is the current issue.
Right now the USCO says if you use a large model that used copyrighted material to train it, you cannot copyright the generated art. This applies to not just art but might be for code as well. So I wonder what the legal liabilities are say for a publicly traded company to use Midjourney to generate content that is also copyrighted.
ex) it is possible to generate movie characters that we instantly recognize if you use non-english words which pretty much nail in the coffin for safe harbour status granted under DMCA
> Right now the USCO says if you use a large model that used copyrighted material to train it, you cannot copyright the generated art.
Unless the Copyright Office has come out with a newer rule, it says if you use a model that does the usual creative parts of making the output you can’t copyright the output, because it is not a work of human authorship. (And that if a work is mixed AI/human, the AI use must be disclosed in copyright registration to avoid copyright protection being applied to elements that are not human work.) “Large model” and “copyrighted material used to train it” are not the issues.
The GP might not be exclusively talking about copyright. They might also be talking about how Air Canada lost a lawsuit about whether or not they needed to honor their chatbot's hallucinations.
Eh, who cares? I get money from my job and can save money entertaining myself with generative art. Even if I can’t copyright it, fine, because it’s an outdated political and economic cudgel used to expropriate and exploit more often than not
The past is so often proven wrong and was so much less civil, we can never actually ask James Madison if we did right by his notion the future owes the past. We can only decide for ourselves we align with the long dead’s philosophy.
Where is the value in so carefully conserving in such detail the past? I’m not saying we end history as a field of study but as an obligation of daily life.
The most important lesson of history, imo, is prevent nation states or whatever might take their place from having the ability to wage wars. Most of their philosophy is indecipherable given our life experience is vastly different than theirs. Would they see this world and come to the same conclusion they did?
Right now the USCO says if you use a large model that used copyrighted material to train it, you cannot copyright the generated art. This applies to not just art but might be for code as well. So I wonder what the legal liabilities are say for a publicly traded company to use Midjourney to generate content that is also copyrighted.
ex) it is possible to generate movie characters that we instantly recognize if you use non-english words which pretty much nail in the coffin for safe harbour status granted under DMCA