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.

  • azuth@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    62·
    10 months ago

    Should Photoshop check your image for copyright infringement? Should Adobe be liable for copyright infringing or offensive images users of it’s program create?

    • kromem@lemmy.worldEnglish
      42·
      10 months ago

      If it’s contributing creatively to your work, yeah, totally.

      If you ask Photoshop fill to add an italian plumber and you’ve been living under a rock for you life so you don’t realize it’s Mario, when you get sued by Nintendo for copyright infringement it’d be much better policy if it was Adobe on the hook for adding copyrighted material and not the end user.

      A better analogy is: if you hired a graphic designer and they gave you copyrighted material, who is liable?

      • azuth@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        11·
        10 months ago

        If it’s contributing creatively to your work, yeah, totally.

        AI is not contributing creatively though, programs do not create.

        If you ask Photoshop fill to add an italian plumber and you’ve been living under a rock for you life so you don’t realize it’s Mario, when you get sued by Nintendo for copyright infringement it’d be much better policy if it was Adobe on the hook for adding copyrighted material and not the end user.

        I am speaking of Photoshop used as a non-AI tool as it has been used to commit copyright infringement for decades before Photoshop fill was a thing. Should it check if your image infringes on copyright?

        A better analogy is: if you hired a graphic designer and they gave you copyrighted material, who is liable?

        The graphic designer. If you went ahead and redistributed it you would also be liable. Whatever program he used or it’s developer wouldn’t be liable.

        • kromem@lemmy.worldEnglish
          31·
          9 months ago

          AI is not contributing creatively though, programs do not create.

          You and I will have to agree to disagree on that Kool-aid, and it’s that disagreement which is core to the model provider being liable for introducing copyright infringement.

    • wildginger@lemmy.myserv.oneEnglish
      21·
      10 months ago

      Did photoshop create a portion of my image? Did adobe add a “generate the picture I asked for, for me, without my input beyond a typed prompt” as a feature?

      Because if they did, 100% yeah, theyre liable.

      • azuth@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        12·
        10 months ago

        They actually are not whether you use a prompt to generate the picture or a digitally paint it with a tablet.

        The user would be the one committing copyright infringement.