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"Point this device at the thing you are looking at and press a button." is sufficient creative effort to generate copyright for photographs, I am not going to b

"Point this device at the thing you are looking at and press a button." is sufficient creative effort to generate copyright for photographs, I am not going to be hard on digital artists doing significantly more work.

ethanbond 5y ago
Generate copyright, sure, but generate value that justifies hiring? You can’t take the camera away from the photographer and have it autonomously recreate the photographer’s taste and tuning. OP is asking whether that’s also the case with the tool shown here (the answer to which I don’t know, but I suspect it does require a fair bit of artistic tuning).
- cinntaile 5y ago
  Well the person currently working at Lucasarts got paid to create a deepfake, now someone made a better version so why not pay them for doing a better job?
  - ethanbond 5y ago
    The reason not to do that is if you can get the same results for free or for a one-time cost. That’s the question GP is asking.
    - cinntaile 5y ago
      A lot of software consists of ready built models, but without the right parameters and constraints you'll just end up with garbage. I don't see a reason why this wouldn't be the case for deep learning models? The fact that they hired him suggests to me that it's not possible at this point point in time anyway.
      - ethanbond 5y ago
        Yes, we've arrived again at GP's question.
        cinntaile 5y ago
        Your reformulated question is not the question originally asked but it is the one I replied to.
- tshaddox 5y ago
  For hiring it obviously just depends on how many people can do the job and what compensation terms they will expect, as well as how much compensation employers will offer.