Adobe to sell AI-generated images on its stock photo platform

Adobe will sell AI-generated images on its stock image platform, despite concerns the technology raises potential copyright issues, the company announced on Monday.  Generative AI systems, like DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion, have taken the internet by storm. Trained on a gargantuan amount of data scraped from the …

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: is it art

I wonder what the overlap is between those who decry this as not being art and those who assign artistic merit to a urinal on a plinth or a canvas painted in a single colour.

[Naich]

Re: is it art

It's the meaning of the art which gives it value. AI generated art has no meaning to it, whereas a signed urinal is a statement from the artist and thus has meaning.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: is it art

What differentiates a person picking the output from an AI from a person picking a urinal to sign? If anything the image picker had even more input into the AIs creation than the urinal picker.

[BinkyTheHorse]

Re: is it art

Whether the output is "art" or not is completely insubstantial. The issue is whether it constitutes derivative work. Applies to other stuff, like, you know, programing code for example.

The entire debacle is clearly seen as an opportunity to use "AI" as a magical IP-clearing black box by the corps.

Icon for the treatment professionals relying on copyrightable work for their livelihood should tolerate, as probably imagined by the OP - who apparently prioritizes Schadenfreude over not living in a corporate dystopia.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: is it art

Fair enough. I don't think it constitutes legally questionable derivative work either, any more than a human looking at some artworks and applying the same style. It's using the information from the existing works but synthesising it in a way that's definitely novel, rather than simply copying parts of the work in a mish mash. Please correct me if I'm wrong but I don't believe it's possible to make an image available but prohibit people from forming ideas based off it.

If it's being used fraudulently, to produce what is misrepresented as a false work, that's another question but it seems to me that the only difference between a skilled human and the algorithms (at least, the ones that are able to be inspected) is the barrier to entry is lower for the machine.