Project background:
If you’ve been on social media throughout the last few months, chances are you’ve seen a plethora of artwork, written content, memes and more – created not by a human, but by an AI. Whilst software and new machine-learning AI systems such as DALL-E 2 and Midjourney have recently become the latest creative craze online, there has been little discussion as to the legal questions surrounding AI-generated content. It may seem a bit surreal or dystopian for some, but there is now a whole new universe of questions to be raised regarding intellectual property and AI.
As much machine-learning software utilises a database of images collated from other artists, is it stealing, copying, or inspiration if you utilize someone else’s artwork and artificial intelligence to create your own? The largest issue still is: Who owns AI-generated art once it has been produced? Artificial intelligence (AI) has long produced art. But this year’s technologies, such DALL-E 2, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion, have allowed even the most inexperienced artists to produce intricate, abstract, or lifelike pieces by merely entering a few words into a text box.
Project intention;
Create a simple AI-Generated art gallery website to invite people who haven’t used AI-generated art before in order to raise people’s awareness of AI copyright thinking.
System map:
Feedback loop:
Prototypes:
Preview:
Cover section
Gallery section
How to section(three tools to introduce)
Upload section(If users try to upload “your” AI-Generated artwork, you will see the copyright at the bottom of the popup window, but who owns this art piece is randomly generated by the computer algorithm.)
About section(Critical thinking)
User test and feedback:
- The Popup window sometimes not working when clicked multiple times.
- Less text.
- Images couldn’t upload to the database.
- How to section and second menu button not clear.
Bibliography:
- Steven Vargas, September 2022, How AI-generated art is changing the concept of art itself, https://www.latimes.com/projects/artificial-intelligence-generated-art-ownership-bias-dall-e-midjourney/
- Copyright review board, https://www.copyright.gov/rulings-filings/review-board/docs/a-recent-entrance-to-paradise.pdf
- Luke Plunkett, August 2022, AI Creating ‘Art’ Is An Ethical And Copyright Nightmare, https://kotaku.com/ai-art-dall-e-midjourney-stable-diffusion-copyright-1849388060
- Charlie Warzel, August 2022, I Went Viral in the Bad Way, https://newsletters.theatlantic.com/galaxy-brain/62fc502abcbd490021afea1e/twitter-viral-outrage-ai-art/
- Arthur Roberts, October 2022, Who owns the copyright in AI-generated art?, https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=fd1e9201-c746-42b4-b3c2-348dfe7ea31d
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James Morales, February 2021, From Poetical Science to GANism: A Selective History of the Art in Artificial Intelligence, https://www.electricartefacts.art/news/from-poetical-science-to-ganism-a-selective-history-of-the-art-in-artificial-intelligence
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LBB Editorial, September 2022, Who Owns AI-Generated Art? https://www.lbbonline.com/news/who-owns-ai-generated-art
Hi Siri, your project has a very cool art which is really my preferred style.
Observe: Your website is concise and have clear step-by-step user guide. I really the the website layout.
Analyze: The background and images selected are very coherent with AI-Generated art. The website make me want to try use AI-Generated art, however, I am still confused about the ownership of copyright for the art works generated by AI. The website randomly generated ownership for the art work, which want me to ask the reason and logic behind it.
Interpret: The website lead me to think about the copyright issue of AI-generated art. I realized it is a complex precess of determining who own the copyright. The AI-generated art industry is just started so we still don’t clear law and related rules. Evaluate: I know the intention of website is to guide people to experience AI-generated art and give rise to copyright issue. Just as Monika said in class, if you can hight light user uploaded art work’s copyright, it would be more helpful.