An artist who infamously duped an art contest with an AI image is suing the U.S. Copyright Office over its refusal to register the image’s copyright.

In the lawsuit, Jason M. Allen asks a Colorado federal court to reverse the Copyright Office’s decision on his artwork Theatre D’opera Spatialbecause it was an expression of his creativity.

Reuters says the Copyright Office refused to comment on the case while Allen in a statement complains that the office’s decision “put me in a terrible position, with no recourse against others who are blatantly and repeatedly stealing my work.”

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    1 month ago

    everyone whose data this was trained on should be included as authors if its not just public domain

    Weird how we make this rule only apply to computers.

    I doubt any human artist would make the exact same works as they have if they were not influenced by the art that they were.

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      1 month ago

      Why is it weird to have different rules for computers and humans? They’re pretty different…

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      1 month ago

      So you’re saying the AI should own the things it makes?

      Broken analogies aside, The twin major problems are

      1. most the data is still intact that AI often recreates it. I think court cases about this are ongoing.

      2. It breaks authorship chains. humans often have to wade through ads or buy products to ‘add data’ to themselves. So if you buy a magazine, you often contribute back to the source artists. or even cite them. AI does not do this. Which is why licensing datasets is a proposed solution to prevent AI from being a death spiral for creativity.