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Re:The Future of Employment: How Susceptible Are Jobs to Com... by egypturnash on Sunday January 29, 2023 @10:49PM (#34575575)
"shut up you luddite, it's perfectly acceptable for your artist job to be automated away, progress is inevitable and all of your objections about how this is playing fast and loose with copyright are meaningless" is pretty much what I get from a lot of Hacker News when I talk about how AI art is not making me happy for the future prospects of my field.
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Re:The Future of Employment: How Susceptible Are Jobs to Com... by photonbucket on Monday January 30, 2023 @12:25AM (#34576105)
I think these artists should be able to prohibit their work being used in a training set

Somewhat related - how does copyright work on the output of these AIs? Can a piece of code be the copyright owner of a picture?

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Re:The Future of Employment: How Susceptible Are Jobs to Com... by chii on Monday January 30, 2023 @12:35AM (#34576164)
> how does copyright work on the output of these AIs?

the person who pressed the button to start the AI generation for that particular output _should_ own the copyright to it (and also be liable for the infringement if it does).

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Re:The Future of Employment: How Susceptible Are Jobs to Com... by andrewjl on Monday January 30, 2023 @01:08AM (#34576355)
I'm really curious how this shakes out in the courts. Wouldn't be surprised to see SCOTUS rule on this in the next decade or two.
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Re:The Future of Employment: How Susceptible Are Jobs to Com... by detaro on Monday January 30, 2023 @03:07AM (#34577086)
> Can a piece of code be the copyright owner of a picture?

No. Copyright requires a human creator.

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