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submitted 2 months ago by lemmee_in@lemm.ee to c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world

Jason Allen, the AI "artist" whose image he created with Midjourney won a fine arts competition two years ago, is still mad that the government won't let him copyright his opus — and, in an amazing lack of self-awareness, is also crying that his work is being stolen as a result.

The prizewinning image, "Théâtre D'opéra Spatial," was deemed to not wholly exhibit human authorship because a significant amount of it — as Allen himself disclaimed — was AI-generated, the US Copyright Office said in a ruling last September. As such, Allen could only claim credit for specific portions of the image that he created with Photoshop — not the thing as a whole.

Now he's making another appeal, Creative Bloq reports, complaining that he's losing money to the tune of "several million dollars" because, without a copyright, his work is being used without his approval. Does this argument ring any bells?

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[-] watson387@sopuli.xyz 72 points 2 months ago

Sounds like that guy is welcome to go fuck himself.

[-] AFreeLarryHoover@lemmy.world 49 points 2 months ago
[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 40 points 2 months ago

I would love to know how he calculated those several million dollars.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago
[-] Nexy 29 points 2 months ago

He worked so hard typing that 3 lines of prompt...

[-] Thorry84@feddit.nl 25 points 2 months ago

Ah you see, his mistake was he made it fungible, he should have made it non fungible. That way he would have been protected!

[-] Rozauhtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 months ago

right clicks

ehehehehe

[-] Etterra@lemmy.world 24 points 2 months ago
[-] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

Great, even a damn Tardigrade is more musically talented then me...

[-] Crackhappy@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

He should copy right into the local pond.

[-] some_guy 11 points 2 months ago

Funny how that works.

[-] paddirn@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

He should take a photograph of it, then he could copyright that.

[-] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 months ago

complaining that he's losing money to the tune of "several million dollars" because, without a copyright, his work is being used without his approval

Losing millions of dollars? ah yeah I'm sure people are lining up to buy prints of your art bro, trust

[-] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

I just made a song about pocket face

Pa pa pa pa pocket face!

Lady Gaga has not reached for comment.

[-] PunchingWood@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

He sounds like everything that's wrong with the current generations of self-entitled degenerates. Doing as little as possible and expecting to be rewarded with piles of gold. Taking other people's hard labour and then run away with it, the only one deserving of a prize is whoever put those image generator together, it's not AI in my eyes, but it is an actual technical accomplishment.

[-] blaue_Fledermaus@mstdn.io 3 points 2 months ago

I'm of the opinion that "AI" generated images can be art, but the art is in a real person selecting and giving meaning to it, not in the process the image came to be.

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 15 points 2 months ago

It's great for brainstorming. And for being lazy.

[-] Blaster_M@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

Artist gonna artist. Some things never change.

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