I don't think there's a comparison between the AI book scraping and the generated covers. One is using a tool to create a new artwork, one is using a tool for plagiarism.
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What about someone who needs a wheelchair but is conveniently successful?
The entire point of the patent system was to say inventors can put their design on the net without it being stolen; so future inventors can build on their work.
For example, how many artists drawing street scenes credit the designer at Ford Motors for teaching them what a generic car looks like? How many even know which designers created their mental model of a car?
Visual artists cannot create without tools. Whether that tool is a brush and paint, a camera, or a neural network. Whether an artist pays for a subscription to openAI or buys paint pots on Amazon.com money is going to a…
I don't think there's a comparison between the AI book scraping and the generated covers. One is using a tool to create a new artwork, one is using a tool for plagiarism.
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What about someone who needs a wheelchair but is conveniently successful?
The entire point of the patent system was to say inventors can put their design on the net without it being stolen; so future inventors can build on their work.
For example, how many artists drawing street scenes credit the designer at Ford Motors for teaching them what a generic car looks like? How many even know which designers created their mental model of a car?
Visual artists cannot create without tools. Whether that tool is a brush and paint, a camera, or a neural network. Whether an artist pays for a subscription to openAI or buys paint pots on Amazon.com money is going to a…