> COPYRIGHT?!?! > OK, so here's an odd question. All of the photos on the site have been licenced under Creative Commons. Mostly BY-SA 4.0 but a few imported f

> COPYRIGHT?!?! > OK, so here's an odd question. All of the photos on the site have been licenced under Creative Commons. Mostly BY-SA 4.0 but a few imported from Flickr and other sites with different CC licences. > What's the copyright situation of the generated images? > I honestly don't know. If you do, stick a comment in the box below. The generated images are derivative works. If a portion of a source image can be recognized and a case were brought, a court may decide that the generated image infringes on the copyright of the owner of said source image. For those images made available by the owners under, CC-BY-SA 4.0, remixing is permitted. However, to fulfill the terms of the CC-BY-SA 4.0, you must add explicit attribution, which has not been done. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ For those images under CC-BY-SA 4.0, if you 1) add attribution and 2) explicitly license your generated images under CC-BY-SA 4.0 as well, that would fulfill the terms of the license and you would be in the clear. Adding attribution would be laborious, since each image would need to be accompanied by attribution for at least every recognizable source image and arguably every image in the model. The practical risk is not the same as the reasoned legal exposure, since a copyright holder would have to take action and most image owners will not bother. Similar analysis applies to all AI-generated creations based on a corpus: they are derivative works of everything in the corpus, and an infringement judgment is possible based on the same criteria that would apply for a manually created collage, copy, pastiche, "tribute", etc. AI is not copyright washing.