AI have no rights. Your AI creations are right-less. They belong in the public domain. If not, they are properties of the peoples whose art you stole to make the AI.
AI have no rights. Your AI creations are right-less. They belong in the public domain. If not, they are properties of the peoples whose art you stole to make the AI.
This honestly might actually make me need to remove China from my list of places I’d like to move to. I’d already be struggling as a foreign artist, but to have to compete with AIs stealing my art and copywriting the stolen art I just don’t think I’d be able to survive there. It’s already tough enough in the west, having even more pro-business/anti-artist laws over there would make it impossible to make a living.
Wouldn’t the copyright laws theoretically protect your art from being used also?
No, because these AI aren’t exactly transparent in what sources they use
AI art is created as an amalgamation of different preexisting artwork, it doesn’t actually create something entirely new. They are trained on artwork that actual artists create, but do not create things themselves, but if their output can be copyrighted, an AI could be trained on my artwork and create something reminiscent of my art style that I have no say or control over.
It’s kind of similar to when artists trace other art and don’t give credit to the original and pretend they made it all themselves, except now the “traced” AI artwork now has legal protections.
My Chinese isn’t nearly good enough to read this law in the original at all, so I could be assuming a worst case scenario, but if businesses can copyright AI art, then they have no reason to hire real artists to work for them, when they could just get an intern to put prompts into an art generator all day instead. As others have said, this is very “business friendly” which means it is very anti-worker (Artists are still workers, even if we don’t fit some narrow ultra definition of the term). A real unfortunate situation, no doubt because AI art is this new fancy thing that laypeople (including the politburo in China) don’t understand and assume is some magical thing that creates art from thin air.
If this is aligned with the party thinking at all, I can only think that the hope is to become really attractive to silicon valley types to move their AI departments to China similar to how they got a lot of other tech while opening up. To do that through a court? Feels far too haphazard. And I’m unconvinced the US would ‘allow’ it. Either way, sucks for artists in the meantime. Hope you have some luck with your career as an artist. It’s a tough field.
Yeah, it’s really tough to find work these days, I mostly just have to do weird fetish content that AI art can’t recreate at this point.
You can probably tell when I’m struggling to find work, I tend to post here a lot more lol.
Were you really thinking of moving there with all that’s gone on over the past several years?