You boffins need to figure out who owns what before someone gets sued
has banned people from uploading AI-generated pictures to its massive stock image collection, citing concerns over copyright.
Text-to-image tools, such as DALL-E, Midjourney, Craiyon, and Stable Diffusion, have opened the floodgates for machine-made artwork. Anyone can either pay a small fee or use a free model to create images from text descriptions.
All you have to do is tell, in writing, the AI system what kind of scene you want it to make, and the software will generate it for you. The quality of these images has got so good they are now being used by professionals to make magazine front covers, adverts, win art competitions, and so on.
You can see them as interesting tools to generate pictures, or as the end of art as we know it.
The copyright on these machine-made pictures remains unclear. The neural networks trained to generate images are trained on photos and art scraped online from sites such as Pinterest or Artstation. Netizens can easily create digital art in the style of any living or dead artists included in the training dataset in just a few seconds.
