18 March 2023 - image generation 4

Jay Scott : Daily Whale : archive : 2023 : 18 March 2023

The U.S. Copyright Office says a copyright holder must be human. They argue that prompting an AI is like giving instructions to a commissioned artist, so AI images cannot be copyrighted. The result is that every useful AI image will be altered in some minor way by a person (overlay text or something). It echoes the arguments over copyright and photography. Pointing the camera is only giving instructions to a machine.

clue:

Try prompting one of these programs and tell me it doesn't require creativity! But then, I asked for "the best of all possible images" and got a purple sports car. Plenty of creativity there too.

Driving does not move you anywhere. It is only giving instructions to a machine. The human need to find agency seems to run deep.

give me a clue so sweet and true