But now, apps that charge money to generate images based on those copyrighted sources without permission are appearing.
Things are about to get ugly.
“This issue is that AI' art' is not actually ‘art.’
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It wasn’t created from the imagination of a human.
It was, instead, pieced together from countless already existing art pieces.
It’s a more complicated paint-by-numbers scheme.
It can do this because it has been trained on millions of existing images from the internet.
But as soon as these tools are used commercially, we’re solidly into the realm of copyright infringement.
That’s fine for long-dead artists, but for living artists, you have used their work without permission.
But even that might not be enough in this case.
Google has already been through the courts regarding scanning books and other printed material.
Individual artists aren’t likely to have the leverage to change anything in this space.
