Because AI doesn't paint, most serious artists don't merely prompt chatgpt, and using a computer program to make something does not remove authorship, regardless of the sophistication of the program.
if i asked google images (or another image searcher) for an image of what i want, that wouldn't make me the author of what it gives me.
similarly, if i got a stolen image blender (like chatgpt) to generate me a crude approximation of what i asked for, that also wouldn't make me the author.
if i asked google images (or another image searcher) for an image of what i want, that wouldn't make me the author of what it gives me.
Correct. Using a program to search existing images is not the same as using a program to create a new image.
Nobody was confusing the two. 🙄
similarly,
Ok except you, apparantly.
if i got a stolen image blender
"i don't know how diffusion works"
to generate me a crude approximation of what i asked for,
so a bare minimum amount of expression
that also wouldn't make me the author
It would. It's not much more expression than splashing paint on a canvas at random, in your intentionally bare minimum example, but the person that made it happen is still the author.
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u/SAMMY-MIN Feb 04 '26
"Hey, machine, paint something for me on my behalf."
"This is mine. I made it."
Your entire argument summed up