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BoomerZ
Nov '22

Here is the problem with AI art. You only see one picture. Never a sequence of pictures telling an actual story. How do you explain a med shot to a AI. Or a any of the other shots used in comics and storyboards. And how is it going to follow a script. So yes AI will be able to replace static shots in the future if you are picky about the outcome. There is too much of the small things computers don't get and for the foreseeable future will not get.

By the way, its not really AI. its just a computer compiling images. It actually doesn't understand what those images are or what they represent. The smartest computer is actually dumber than an insect when it comes to this.

Ordinaryaverageguy
Nov '22
RobertBMarks

Good point. It's my understanding that Disney characters are covered by copyrights, though. Is that incorrect? I understand trademarks can become lost if not defended (a travesty of its own) & copyrights are lost due to passage of time.

That jives with & clarifies the remarks I'd read from artists on Deviant Art, etc. There seems to be a long running argument (mostly among non-lawyers) as to whether copy-pasting bits from here & there into a composite are really copyright violations. Also whether an original work can be copied & edited to a degree that it's not a copyright violation. I've had at least one legally-trained person opine that both processes are violations no matter how much tinkering is done to the original pixels.

RobertBMarks
Nov '22

To a degree, they're covered by both. I now have to say that I am not a lawyer, although I have been a legal researcher, and my expertise comes from experience in publishing and should not be considered legal advice. So, Steamboat Willie and the Mickey Mouse who appears is covered by copyright. However, Mickey Mouse, the character used for commerce and as a mascot by Disney, is covered by trademark. This means that in a few years, the version of the character who appeared in Steamboat Willie will be in the public domain, but the Disney mascot will covered under trademark.

The question is whether it is transformative. If I was to start with somebody's character (such as Altair from Re:Creators) and use them as a writing prompt, creating a new character with a similar yet modified back story but different personality (now named Aquila) this is transformative and thus a derivative work. Aquila has the DNA of Altair inside her, but she is a new character with her own personality and character arc.

(And yes, this is a real example, and everybody gets to meet her in mid-December.)

To bring that to AI art with copying and pasting, if you just take a person from one picture and put them on a new background, then it probably isn't transformative enough to count as a derivative work - it's still that same person. If you take this person, replace their head with a toaster, and call them "Toaster Head the Great," this would be transformative, and thus a derivative work. It is no longer the same person, and all of the elements (body, toaster, background) have been used to create something new.

EDIT: Hopefully that makes sense.

Ordinaryaverageguy
Nov '22

Yes, that all makes sense & I thank you for taking the time to share your understanding of it. If we were lawyers, we'd be billing everyone for our comments here! LOL

Lensing
Nov '22

I hear that A.I art can replace human artists, is this true?

No

If you live to 100 years old, what would you expect to see?

AI ruling the world

CAOMouse
Nov '22
Kelheor

1) Thank you, now I can sleep soundly :yum:
2) I think people need at least 200 years to fly like Cowboy Bebop, but who knows

CAOMouse
Nov '22

New question:
3) What would happen to the world if we discover anti aging drug? (Only prevent people from dying of old age, people still die because of accidents and deadly diseases).

Lensing
Nov '22

It will be really expensive and only a few people can effort it so it will not really effect the rest of the world

thepenmonster1
Nov '22
CAOMouse

It would be hoarded by the wealthy and they would dangle it above the heads of the plebeians as a way to keep them in line.

CAOMouse
Nov '22

That would be a great idea for a story, of how people control each other and about the true meaning of life :+1:

CAOMouse
Nov '22
Lensing

Yeah, new technology usually expensive and hard to access.
But what if the recipe got leaked and now anyone can have anti aging drug? Will it affect society greatly?

Lensing
Nov '22

It would affect society greatly and imagine the gap between rich and poor gets even bigger than it is now,
the recources run out, most of the planet is uninhabitable. A few people survive while everyone else
suffers and dies and they have the antiaging drug and the control over the recources

CAOMouse
Nov '22

I have a theory that people will shut themselves inside the house because now they know they can live forever, taking risk become more frightful. Is this a possibility?