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

  • piecat@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    It doesn’t “contain the original work” in the way it sounds. That sounds like there’s literally a stolen picture, sitting in the network, ready to be copy/pasted into the derivative work.

    If you examined the network, you won’t see anything like the “stolen image”. It’s an entire latent space of many dimensions, where a point in the space is a concept.

    A good metaphor might be a recipe for bread, or worded instructions on how to draw Mickey mouse.

    It’s just that a computer is so good at following those instructions verbatim, it can draw Mickey mouse with uncanny ability.

    Is “draw a circle at 100,200 of diameter ∅40 color hex 0xBEEFE5, draw a line from…” the same as Mickey Mouse? If I got the detail 100% and following those instructions gives Mickey mouse, am I distributing copyrighted work ?

    • Ross_audio@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      10 months 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.