> a painting signed with a [facsimile] signature of Dali
That's not what's happening here though.
If you look at the original tweet (https://twitter.com/LaurynIpsum/status/1599953586699767808) it seems that the complaint is about the "mangled remains of an artist’s signature". I don't see any examples where it's actually copying the signature of a specific artist.
(Please do share an example of that if there is one.)
Re:Megaface
by return_to_monke on Monday January 02, 2023 @05:15PM
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I do respect artist's concerns. I have a hard time getting this one though. The ai learned that humans usually put squiggly lines in the corners, and it does, too. What is wrong with this?
It's reasoning based on a false assumption. If you start from the assumption that AI imagery is based on specific source images, which had signatures, then it can make sense to assume that the squiggly lines in the corner are evidence that it copied-and-mangled some such specific pictures.
That's not what it did, of course. But if you start from the assumption...
I doubt you're suggesting SD, Dall-E, etc., are producing parodies so bringing in parody considerations muddies the water a lot. Also, Shakespeare's works are out of copyright.
If you sell a painting signed with a [facsimile] signature of Dali then it's pretty hard to say you didn't copy the signature, as a minimum. Thats likely to be a trademark violation too. Now, suppose you include aspects in the image specifically associated with the artist, and a signature, ... there's no way to genuinely deny that is a derivative.