Jason Allen, the AI “artist” whose image he created with Midjourney won a fine arts competition two years ago, is still mad that the government won’t let him copyright his opus — and, in an amazing lack of self-awareness, is also crying that his work is being stolen as a result.
The prizewinning image, “Théâtre D’opéra Spatial,” was deemed to not wholly exhibit human authorship because a significant amount of it — as Allen himself disclaimed — was AI-generated, the US Copyright Office said in a ruling last September. As such, Allen could only claim credit for specific portions of the image that he created with Photoshop — not the thing as a whole.
Now he’s making another appeal, Creative Bloq reports, complaining that he’s losing money to the tune of “several million dollars” because, without a copyright, his work is being used without his approval. Does this argument ring any bells?
Idk about that logic
The dudes stuff is pretty nice. Most people can’t make stuff that nice in midjourney. Not necessarily saying it should be copyrightable mind you, but I think there’s at least some artistic ability this guy has. Copyright is a clusterfuck as it is so that seems like a moot argument anyways.
You confuse “obsessive pushing of the ‘Create!’ button” with artistic ability. Most people can make that stuff in Midjourney. They just have to be sufficiently obsessive to sit down at the prompt and believe that eventually the monkey with the paintbrush will generate something acceptable.