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If someone builds a device that sprays paint onto a canvas based on some parameters, and then a person use those parameters, writes a small controller that spra
by pcthrowaway 4y ago
If someone builds a device that sprays paint onto a canvas based on some parameters, and then a person use those parameters, writes a small controller that sprays the paint a specific way, manually adjusts the position of the device over multiple sessions, and does their own touchups to create a piece of art, would they not hold the copyright on the resulting piece?
Yes, there is a deterministic component (although, to my knowledge, the AI tools aren't actually deterministic over their parameters). But the resulting work involves a lot of human creativity and intervention.
- AnthonyMouse 4y agoSuppose you have a printer with a programmable head which can be used to print out arbitrary images. Can you copyright the pictures it can print, even though the printing is done by machine? Obviously. But then it's not the machine choosing what you want on the page.
- pcthrowaway 4y agoPerhaps my analogy wasn't clear. I meant, the painting device uses your parameters, but also supplies some modifications. Like a stenograph. At the end of the day, generative AI, Stenograph, and this painting device are all tools. If you shake a kaleidoscope and then take a picture through the lens, I'm pretty sure you have copyright on that photograph, even though someone else made the kaleidoscope
- AnthonyMouse 4y agoIt's not the presence of a machine which makes it ineligible for copyright. It's the absence of some independent creative expression. If you add significant creative expression to what the machine does, that's not the same thing as the output of a machine produced from a minimal input.
- pcthrowaway 4y agoWhat we're talking about here is definitely art where a human is providing independent creative expression, in combination with generative tools