Art is dead, dude. It’s over. A.I. won. Humans lost.

He made the art shown below. It's not even good lmao, why the fuck would you declare something like that if you make the shittiest looking AI art. What a fucking clown.

"""Artist"""

It's probably a safe bet that this AI artist was also a NFT artist or procurer a few years ago.

The layers to irony in this case is almost too delicious.

I said this when it was posted elsewhere- how is he calculating those millions of dollars?

He cannot copyright it because he didn't make it. He wrote a couple of words into a text box. It's no different from commissioning an artist to draw for you, except in this scenario it is analogous to the artist turning out to be someone who traces other people's art without their consent, and claiming you made the picture.

per Wikipedia

On September 21, 2022, Allen submitted an application to the us copyright office for registration of the image. Prior to the first formal refusal, the Copyright Office Examiner requested that the request would exclude any features of the image generated by Midjourney. Allen declined the request and requested copyright for the whole image.

So what I'm getting from that is his Photoshop edits aren't significant enough to constitute a copyrightable work on their own and the copyright office was right to deem it a non-human production.

They forgot to put "Artist" in quotes too

Another idiot who thinks "prompt engineering" is a real skill and not just another step those companies are using idiots for free AI training.

You ask AI to draw a ninja turtle on a skateboard, and that "effort" they put into phrasing their request well enough for the AI to understand makes the AI learn the 10 past attempts were looking for what the 11th got

And now it won't take ten tries to go that route

Any "skill" by the user has a very short expiration date because the next version won't need it thanks to all the time users spent developing those "skills".

But no one impressed with AI is smart enough to realize that. And since they're the on s training the AI....

Idiots in, idiots out

I love how they quoted “famous”

What a fuckin tool, for real

I like the comment that said the AI is the artist and he's just a commissioner, makes perfect sense.

Not the Onion. This was unexpected...

One of the very firest things I looked into when I learned about midjourney was look into the copyright matters pertaining to Ai generated art. Saw that it's not really copyrightable, and then started using the search feature on their discord to find prompts by others for the junk I wanted.

Agreed.

Get fucked, you no talent ass clown.

“Famous”?

Never heard of him.

Bit melodramatic. Even the real artists that midjourney actually stole from don't claim to have lost millions individually as a result.

eat shit dude

It's not "famous" that should be in inverted commas, but "artist".

In 2021 I made a sound installation project called "Opéra Spatial " and entered a bunch of public prompt in mid-jouney via discord to generate images for the work. This guy made his image on year later.

I’m not convinced he is not playing 4D chess and recognizes the huuuge irony.

Then again, satire is dead.