Generative AI Has a Visual Plagiarism Problem

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Generative AI Has a Visual Plagiarism Problem::Experiments with Midjourney and DALL-E 3 show a copyright minefield

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You know what I found interesting? The article has both midjourney cherry picked outputs, but also has the original screen caps from the various movies. Neither image was licensed from the creators to produce the content of this website, but they are still allowed to serve this article with “infringing” images far and wide.

This easily falls under fair use.

Under the fair use doctrine of the U.S. copyright statute, it is permissible to use limited portions of a work including quotes, for purposes such as commentary, criticism, news reporting, and scholarly reports.

https://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-fairuse.html

This article fulfills pretty much all of those things.

Infringement depends on the use, and they are not selling it - they are informing.