Experiments with Midjourney and DALL-E 3 show a copyright minefield

Generative AI Has a Visual Plagiarism Problem::Experiments with Midjourney and DALL-E 3 show a copyright minefield

  • Ross_audio@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    The chemical brothers were successfully sued for using a sample they no longer recognised and an AI recognised decades later.

    It was mathematically altered so much a human couldn’t recognise the input, and still can’t.

    Legally they did nothing different to an AI taking a massive input and outputting a mathematical dissimilar result.

    The chemical brothers did that to a sample with plugins, additions, stretches and were still held liable for the original sample royalty.

    AI should be no different.

    • piecat@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Listen at 2:00, https://youtu.be/q0AcZkR_LUs?si=L-dbJasU5YRseIvD

      I wouldn’t call that “unrecognizable”, it’s pretty obvious what was sampled.

      AI should be no different

      I agree

      The chemical brothers were sued for this one song that had recognizable infringement. And despite that instance of copying/sampling, and presumably listening to many many copyrighted works in their lifetime, that doesn’t invalidate any of their other works.

      Artists/musicians can also “accidentally” plagiarize, meaning they “came up with” a beat or lick, not recognizing that it is from something they’ve heard previously until someone says “hey isn’t that xyz”.

      Either an output is or isn’t infringing.