Algorithms Mimic Art

“I could see litigation arising from the artist who says ‘I didn't give you permission to train your algorithm on my art,’” says Bradford Newman, a partner in the law firm Baker Mckenzie, who specializes in AI.

Earlier this week, Stålenhag appeared to experience some dystopian 1 dread of his own when he found that artificial intelligence had been used to mimic his style.

“There will absolutely be all sorts of litigation at some point — I’m sure of it,” he says.

Others have built similar tools — such as Midjourney, used by Guadamuz to mimic Stålenhag — which can differ in their rules about appropriate use.

He says that infringing trademarks like a brand’s logo, or the image of a character such as Mickey Mouse, could prove more legally fraught.

[13] RJ Palmer, who specializes in drawing fantastical creatures and worked as a concept artist on the movie Detective Pikachu, says curiosity drove him to try out DALL-E 2 — but he also became a little nervous derivative, generated goo is what our new tech lords are hoping to feed us in their vision of the future.”

In a blog post after the incident, Guadamuz argues that lawsuits claiming infringement are unlikely to succeed, because while a piece of art may be protected by copyright, an artistic style cannot.

After that training, they can conjure up almost any combination of objects and scenes and can reproduce the styles of individual artists with uncanny accuracy.

After that training, they can conjure up almost any combination of objects and scenes and can reproduce the styles of individual artists with uncanny accuracy.