But you have to consider what intellectual property is being stolen. Claiming their style is being stolen requires they have a recognizable trademark style. Like if people were shown a new unsigned piece by them and they'd be able to identify the artist. Not many artists would pass that test.
It's muddy. Nobody knows it, and it's worse because this tech will be brought up to GenX and boomer judges that are absolutely CLUELESS about how it works.
We're actually moving into uncharted territory, but I personally think AI art is a representation of fair use, because you're taking a bunch of things and making a brand new thing off of it - almost like a parody, but we don't know because someone DID "steal" the data for a lot of these AI art bots from another site and "fed" it into there.
But you have to consider what intellectual property is being stolen. Claiming their style is being stolen requires they have a recognizable trademark style. Like if people were shown a new unsigned piece by them and they'd be able to identify the artist. Not many artists would pass that test.
There's actually a LOT of discussion around this.
And here's the laws around copyright and AI:
It's muddy. Nobody knows it, and it's worse because this tech will be brought up to GenX and boomer judges that are absolutely CLUELESS about how it works.
We're actually moving into uncharted territory, but I personally think AI art is a representation of fair use, because you're taking a bunch of things and making a brand new thing off of it - almost like a parody, but we don't know because someone DID "steal" the data for a lot of these AI art bots from another site and "fed" it into there.