“OpenAI asks court to trim authors’ copyright lawsuits”
Generative AI companies did what most startups do — whatever they want and then deal with the consequences later, if there ever is a later. They trained their AI off of datasets that included known piracy sites (because how else were they going to get access to copyrighted texts without authors’ permission?) and then now claim the AI that uses those works is not derivative.
That’s all a well and good argument except there is a parallel lawsuit from Getty Images related to generative AI that literally shows pieces of the Getty Images watermark in generated art from these generative AI systems.
I blogged about this subject in a previous blog, this is going to come down to if a collage of really small pieces is counted as unique thought/creations or derivative works. In my perspective, these generative-AI models aren’t thinking, they do not have consciousness, so no matter how small the pieces they pull from (often of copyrighted works), it is still going to be a collage and not an actual piece of new thought. And, given the way the copyright office has come down in its views of copyrighting generative-AI creations, I’m guessing they agree with me.
PS Generative AI featured picture “trim the lawsuit” brought to you by creepy judges’ faces, is that an American flag?, and what is going on with her shirt cuffs?? Oh, and there’s a giant scissors cutting up a pile of documents.
