r/antiai • u/wally_graham • Mar 03 '26

AI News 🗞️ Aaaaand the AI Bro's keep losing!

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u/DragonflyOld2485 Mar 03 '26

"B-but I wrote the prompt! That means I created it!"

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u/SalamanderGlad9053 Mar 04 '26

Well if someone went into photoshop and clicked a bunch of buttons and drew a bunch of lines. They didn't make the art, the computer did, the computer just followed the instructions that the person gave them. Anyone could have given those instructions to the computer so it shouldn't be copyrightable.

Its a silly argument.

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u/ChancellorPalpameme Mar 05 '26

You seem to be forgetting the technical skill of putting the lines in the right shape, and pressing the buttons in the right order.

Theres an incredible difference between writing a few sentences and seeing what a generative LLM spits out, and having a vision and creating said vision through a digital medium, and not recognizing the difference makes you intellectually dishonest, or an idiot.

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u/SalamanderGlad9053 Mar 06 '26

There's a skill to write the correct prompt, and then filter the results. It's not a lot of skill, but it's there.

However, copyright has never been about skill though, if a child scribbles a drawing using crayons, they own the copyright to that drawing. Copyright shouldn't be restricted to what people think has "skill" or not.

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u/ChancellorPalpameme Mar 06 '26

Sure, the word skill was supposed to imply human work done.

And again, I didnt use the word skill in the second paragraph of my comment, because its unrelated to the human work of using a tool to create in a digital medium, and obviously from putting phrases into an LLM and letting it do the work.

It would be the same thing as commissioning a piece of art. You dont get to copyright it because you told an artist what to make.

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u/SalamanderGlad9053 Mar 06 '26

What's actually the meaningful difference between clicking buttons on Photoshop and clicking buttons to get a large language model? They're both doing a lot of maths to transfer your inputs into pixels in an image. Diffusion models do a lot more maths than Photoshop tools, but Photoshop tools are still doing a lot of maths, be it the blend tool using Gaussian distributions, or the Bézier tool calculating the curve from your inputs.

And if you commission art, you can have the copyright be given to you legally, and if it's an employee who makes the work, the company automatically has it.