- Stop stressing about the energy and carbon footprint of ChatGPT. It’s not a big deal www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/carbon-foo...
- This user and the author of the focused post to block each other.Mkay I’ll stress about the art theft and other ethical issues instead.
- This user and the person they're replying to block each other.Also not a big deal or even a real thing
- The fuck it isn’t.
- It isn't. That isn't how AI image generators work - they don't output original works. Essentially, they only remix styles which is protected fair use, and courts have already ruled that any further changes to an output by a user can be copyrighted as an original work. It isn't infringing.
- It’s ABSOLUTELY infringing, and the sheer cowardice you display in defending the theft of existing works is appalling. “Courts have already ruled?” Cite the cases.
- Lol okay. My generation was perfectly okay with engaging in widespread internet piracy 5 years ago. This is a virtue signaling bubble, by people themselves likely engage in copyright infringement drawing in copyrighted styles of copyrighted characters. www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/01/31/a...
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- And finally, as a member of SAG-AFTRA, I can promise you that if my or any other member’s image is used in any context without compensation according to Union guidelines, the consequences will be hard to ignore. Lol okay.
- Ooh I'm shaking in my boots.
- Yes, but it is copyrightable *if* you use it as an assistant. For example, creating a collage of AI generated images and applying filters or text to it such as a poem might be copyrightable. Again, because that's now an original artwork made with non-infringing fair use content. This will improve.
- Most datasets used to train generative AI models include copyrighted materials without the creators' consent. This lack of permission further weakens any fair use claim. Creators have the right to control how their work is used, and the absence of their consent undermines ethical and legal defenses.
- Lol creators absolutely do not have the right to control how their work is used and there's a really funny story about that we read in high school, where an artist sells some pottery to a man who invites her to a dinner date, and she finds he's using the vase she made as his toilet brush holder.
