Artistic Credit Assignment: Using Cameras vs. Using GenAI Models

1 points by KuriousCat 2y ago ↗ HN

Very curious about the credit assignment practices in our society. Usually photograph credits are assigned to the photographer who took the picture instead of Canon or Nikon. In contrast, when a picture produced by a human prompting the GenAI models, credit is usually assigned to the model making company such as Midjourney, DallE or Stability. What is governing this behavior? Or did photography also go through a moment where camera companies got the credit for the pictures produced?

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solardev 2y ago ↗

They don't usually credit the company, do they, but the AI itself, like ChatGPT or Dall-E (instead of OpenAI)? Sometimes the AI is also the company name.

Besides, these models don't have a way to backward attribute the (hundreds if not tens of thousands of) humans who contributed their creative works to its learning/stealing.

And we don't really have legal recognition for AI yet. Cats and dogs currently have more rights than the most human like AI. Eventually they'll probably have their own legal and property rights and be able to own humans and such, but we're not quite there yet. Maybe next year?