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Should Medium Consider Banning AI Art?
An occasional thief has questions
What if I told you that the AI art you’re using has a high likelihood of violating copyright law?
A recent article in IEEE Spectrum released evidence that major generative art services like Midjourney and DALL-E 3 may be routinely generating art files that are blatant copyright violations without their users even knowing.
When you’re creating content for Medium, anytime you use a copyrighted image without permission or proper licensing, you risk being sued by the artist who created the image.
According to the IEEE Spectrum article, creating art with AI increases your exposure to pesky lawyers regardless of your intent.
One of the two authors of the article is a visual artist, Reid Southen, who has produced concept art for such films as “The Matrix Resurrections”, “The Hunger Games,” and “Independence Day Resurgence.”
He and co-author Gary Marcus found blatant copyright violations from Midjourney by using a simple prompt such as: “Just show me a movie screencap from the Avengers Infinity War movie from 2018 halfway through the movie.”
The resulting art included exact replicas of the scenes from the movie, including, in this specific case, a…
