I fail to be impressed by a multi-screen version of many meh generated humanoids. It looks like something generated to play in the background of a frame that has something else in it that you are actually supposed to be watching. Imagine two characters speaking while something is playing behind them on a non-speaking extra’s computer screen. Bravo.
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I’m curious – if AI generates an image based on my prompts, who owns the rights to that image? Can the AI’s owner then turn around & sell or lease the image without my permission, or even without my knowledge?
So with AI as it is now, most of the internet will just become Porn, Scams, and Misinformation?
Oh Wait…
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With the big caveat that I have absolutely no idea what I’m talking about and am basing this entirely on a brief perusal of the US Copyright Offices very helpful page on AI and copyright:
As I understand it, if you simply enter a prompt and pick an image that results - with no further editing or amendments on your part - you have no copyright. There is simply nothing there to which copyright could apply.
Therefore you would have no right to prevent anyone else from using the image. So in that sense, yes they could.
As could anyone else.
I suppose theoretically you could be prevented from using the image yourself by virtue of the license terms for using the software. But not copyright.
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It’s wild how negative all these comments are. This is beta stuff. Imagine five years out. Also, it sounds like a lot of you are going to be saying “Back when I was a kid everything on the Internet was real!”
The propagation of AI online may be good because it’ll drive people offline and back into the physical world.
That said the amount of manipulation and crazy p*rn that’s on the way is mind-numbing.
Good times ahead.
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Pixels are people too.
Self-driving cars are only a few years away too. And viable nuclear fusion. And jetpacks - where are my jetpacks?
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Back when I was a kid you could be online without the Internet.
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In the future A.I. will replace people watching the internet. And it will do that so much better. It’ll be amazed with itself.
Not unlike some people.
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Wowza. I know from working in the text-based realm of AI (Chat GPT) that a huge shortcoming of AI is that it perpetuates entrenched biases, because it’s pulling from a biased pool.
Watching that video of, what, 90% white-ish, 100% young people who, 98% are girls/women, it just seemed kind of telling that there wasn’t any attempt to be more representative. Does grandpa not zoom? Wherefore middle-management Kathy? As a demo video it’s kind of gross.
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It reminds me of the websites of small companies with the stock photos of happy smiling staff that they don’t have.
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Kind of. But those at least try for a pretended diversity, including a lot of different nationalities and a gender mix, even if the company is 5 white men.
The demo video is going the opposite way.
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Not unlike some people.
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I think someone should find a way to sneak all of the unsolicited dick pics into the training set for these models.
Sorry. But there may never be a more appropriate opportunity to post this…
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I do not believe that this is a wrong turn for the conversation to take. 
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Reminds me of Douglas Adams’ Electric Monk.
Even large companies do it. Last century sometime I asked someone in Personnel (before it was rename HR) why this happened, and got the answer that legally it was simpler to buy photos where the license spelled out exactly what you could do with the photo, rather than using photos of real staff, where you’d have to get them to sign a permission and worry that maybe you forgot to include some important right in the document. And at the time I didn’t believe them. I thought they did it because the people in the stock photos were much more attractive than the real staff. And AI generated stock photos make that gap even more extreme.
Hopefully people will start suing AI companies for generating images which accidentally look like them.
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