My wife loves to write and quite often enters competitions against others where the subject is given and they then have to write text to fit the rules. So for example 750 words, short story on the start of the day, or the end of the day ….. etc.
Some rules exist such as it must be about one person, or a family again the competition States the rules.
Now she has noticed that some will say your own work, or no more than 50% aided by artificiel intelligence. But how do they know how is it tested. She asked me !
In wordprocessing you can switch révision marking and I know you have written the first lind, then someone else has added line 2 and the spell check has changed that word or the thesarus has changed that text etc But AI ?
Just to add to the question.
She is writing a book with her daughter, a colouring book for adults (Yes there is a market please dont ask I know nothing) so she write the subject material and needs a image to go with it, the book is on old disappeared skills such as farming by hand using a cow to pull the plow before a tractor. So onto AI get it to draw such an image. Who owns the copyright of the image, her for the idea, AI for drawing it, and if she publishes it is that legal. If she used a photo it would have behind it date, equipment used, geo localisation etc. But does AI have the same.
just to clarify she does it for fun no prize, no payment, not sure if they will go to print
it was an interesting conversation over the evening meal which I could not answer.
If she used the “free” version of the AI, the AI company claims ownership. However, publishers and artists whose works have been used as training data might have something to say about this.
There are already court cases where creators sued AI companies and won, resulting in lots of damages. It’s not far fetched for creators to start suing “authors” of AI slop.
This results in your wife’s work being in a legal grey area; that is, if she decides to publish. Artists might find it really similar to their own work and sue her if she makes (in their eyes) too much money from, what they perceive as, their work.
Does she need to worry? I don’t think so, unless she decides to publish for money. In that case she might open a can of worms she would not appreciate.
The intellectual property rights around AI haven’t been hashed out that well yet. People are still figuring out who is the owner in which case.
I’d go with a real artist; somebody who has a unique style and signature. It’ll be that much more satisfying to finish the book. There’s loads of hobbyist artists out there offering their services for a low price or even for free. She’d give someone something real to do, and she’d get an actual unique work as a result (and a new contact, if the work is satisfactory).
Thanks for your detailed answer. She has no real plans to publish or sell, its a learning exercise for her. I am encouraging her to do one to the finish and get it on Amazon as a kindle download for free so she sees how it fits together and the colouring book with images again on Amazon for free as page layout, numbering, covers, margins, binding guttering are all terms I know and understand but its a different language and concept for her.
In the past she has done painting, Stone carving, origami, pottery, mosaïque, ….. learning skills in her retirement plus is a wonder at languages, Italian spanish Greek portugais english as well as her native french.
AI cant draw an image with no instructions.
How do you tell it what to draw?
Is it not just another drawing tool?
Compare it with using Blender to make drawing. Noone considers Blender to own the copyright. The copyright is owned by the creator ( the one who contributes the creative content). AI is tool, not a creator.
Think of what would happen if one AI program talked to another AI program and asked it to draw something. Who would own it then?
Stupid question. The result would be non-creative… ie not worth owning.
Don’t know if this help, but a person can also do a search on the internet.
Like ‘copyright free images of a cow’ and I got lots of hits. I sure other images can be found that be used for free.