here’s the image Allen says Midjourney generated
Bwahahahahaha! snort He’s really not doing his argument any favors by making claims that are such obvious bald-faced lies. I guess he’s decided that “feeding an algorithm some prompts” wasn’t likely to be accepted for a copyright claim, so now he’s claiming that, just coincidentally, he not only painted in a bunch of details that are totally in the style of that generation of AI model, but a bunch of details that don’t make any sort of sense, visually or otherwise. Pull the other one, it’s got bells on. (The crowning irony being that the presented “original” image looks like it underwent far more human manipulation - even if it was just some blur filters - than the supposed human-assembled image, that’s clearly untouched AI output.)
I wish I knew what his prompts were, to see what MJ would spit out now. I imagine it would be completely different. (Edit: which just further undermines claims of authorship with generated images. If the final image has radically different outcomes despite your contributions being identical, and it’s not a process-centric work, where you came up with the process, your creative contributions don’t remotely rise to the level where you can claim any sort of ownership over the resulting image.)
