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YouTube creator sues Nvidia and OpenAI for ‘unjust enrichment’ for using their videos for AI training
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I used to be a very popular and successful collage artist (I'm now an illustrator, I like painting more), and my work has been copied by AI. However, I don't really care. In fact, I was musing once the idea of licensing everything under the CC-BY license. I don't mind if AI copies my stuff, because if eventually this democratizes art (as it has already), all the better. Yes, these AI belong to corporations, but if they're easy to access, or free to use, all the better. I want people to extend what I did, and remix it. I don't want to be remembered as me, as a singular artist, that somehow I emerged from the void. Because I didn't. EVERY artist is built on top of their predecessors, and all art is a remix. That's the truth that other artists don't wanna hear because it's all about their ego.
The issue isn't ego from any artists I've talked to. The issue is that most enjoy DOING their art for a living, and AI threatening their ability to make a living doing the thing they love, by actively taking their work and emulating it.
Add to that, that no one seems to believe AI does a better job than a trained artist, and it also threatens to lower the quality bar at the top end.
Personally I think that if AI is free to use and any work done by AI cannot be covered by copyright (due to being trained on people's art against their will), then I don't have an issue with it.
AI generated content cannot be copyrighted because it is not the product of creativity, but the product of generative computing.
This article is about a lawsuit that sounds in unjust enrichment, not copyright. Unjust enrichment is an equitable claim, not a legal claim, and it's based on a situation in which one party is enriched at the expense of another, unjustly. If an AI company is taking content without permission, using it to train its model, and then profiting off its model without having paid or secured any license from the original artists, that seems pretty unjust to me.
If you're at all interested in how the law is going to shake out on this stuff, this is a case to follow.
I wasn't commenting on the article or it's contents. Although I do find it interesting and is something I intend to keep an eye on.
I was simply responding to another comment, which also wasn't directly related to the article.