Generative AI Fuels Copyright Concerns
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Generative AI models like Midjourney and DALL-E 3 can produce near-identical copies of copyrighted images, characters, and scenes from films, video games, etc., even when not directly prompted.
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This exposes users to potential copyright infringement claims and raises questions around compensation for artists whose work gets reused without consent.
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Midjourney and OpenAI appear to have used copyrighted content in training without licensing it or compensating artists.
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The systems provide no transparency into the source of generated images nor warn users when outputs may infringe copyright.
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There is vast potential for litigation from movie studios, game publishers, etc. unless models are retrained only on properly licensed data or reliably filter copyright violations.