When AI meets IP Can artists sue AI imitators (Ep 566)
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Ben and Ceora talk through some thorny issues around AI-generated music and art, explain why creators are suing AI companies for copyright infringement, and compare notes on the most amusing/alarming AI-generated content making the rounds (Pope coat, anyone?).
Ben and Ceora talk through some thorny issues around AI-generated music and art, explain why creators are suing AI companies for copyright infringement, and compare notes on the most amusing/alarming AI-generated content making the rounds (Pope coat, anyone?).
Episode notes:
Getty Images is suing (opens new window) the company behind AI art generator Stable Diffusion for copyright infringement, accusing the company of copying 12 million images without permission or compensation to train its AI model.
Meanwhile, a group of artists is suing (opens new window) the companies behind Midjourney, DreamUp, and Stable Diffusion for “scraping and collaging” their work to train AI models.
One of those artists, Sarah Anderson, wrote an op-ed in The New York Times (opens new window) about seeing her comics gobbled up by AI models and regurgitated as far-right memes.
Speaking of copyright violations, did Vanilla Ice really steal that hook from David Bowie and Freddie Mercury? (Yes (opens new window).)
Check out the AI model trained on Kanye’s voice (opens new window) that sounds almost indistinguishable from Ye himself.
Read The Verge’s deep dive (opens new window) into the intersection of AI-generated music and IP/copyright laws.
Watch the AI-generated video of Will Smith eating spaghetti (opens new window) that’s been called “the natural end point for AI development (opens new window).”
ICYMI: The Pope coat was real in our hearts (opens new window).
Columbia University’s Data Science Institute recently wrote about how blockchain can give creators more control over their IP (opens new window), now that AI-generated art is clearly here to stay.
Congrats to today’s Lifeboat badge (opens new window) winner, herohuyongtao (opens new window), for answering How can I add a prebuilt static library in a project using CMake? (opens new window).
