Generative-AI Content and Copyright
And how Generative-AI is creating new porn
Generative-AI caused a media frenzy when open-source models emerged over the summer, including big players like Open AI’s Dall-E, Stable Diffusion, and Midjourney. With it, a steady influx of billion-dollar startups, entrepreneurs, and venture capitalists rebranded themselves as AI experts. But artists and technology experts continued to raise concerns about generative-AI’s ability to spread misinformation or infringe on artist copyright.
The media storm isn’t just about the platform’s creative capabilities or the possible demise of human art, although that did come up a lot. It was and still is concerned with issues surrounding copyright, ownership, and deepfake fraud.
In September, Getty Images banned AI generative art from its platform. The photo stock agency was concerned with how image generators scrape publicly available and mostly copyrighted content from the internet to produce new imagery. Sampled images are often copyrighted from stock photo websites like Shutterstock, Getty, news sources, or original artworks without credit or compensation to the original creators. A Californian class-action lawsuit has been filed this month against GitHub Copilot for copyright infringement and if it goes against GitHub it will set a legal precedent between creators…
