Raw LLM Responses

THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: If my (non-artist) mom’s pet hamster fell onto her computer’s keyboard and accidentally prompted MidJourney, and this led Midjourney to create an artistic image would that A) Make the hamster an artist? B) Or my mom the artist? C) Or neither? Midjourney can in-fact generate images based on one word or “non-word” prompts. or “by accident.” I don’t think it’s fair for someone to use raw Midjourney output, post it on a gallery somewhere (as they often do) and consider it their own art. It’s simply not their own art. Not unless they creative iterative art using a model trained on either 1. open sourced content 2. commons content 3. their own artwork. 4. licensed art AND If they adequately transform the original work within the bounds of fair use, per use case. Artists should be compensated for the use of their art in the training of these generative art models. Including the ones whose art was used to train Midjourney. or Midjourney etc could be rebooted without pilfered artwork. but then it would look quite different. maybe some transparency would be nice. without the work of recent and of living artists, character designers, UX designers, product designers, fashion illustrators, amazing comic artists, etc. and all of the real artists on art station, MidJourney would NOT have that “mid-journey look”…and would look more like DALL.E or a retro image generator. compensate or work with the artists whose IP is being used in midjourney! OR RE-do Midjourney without artist’s IP. AI further commodifies the spirit (❤️vs.💰🤑) of art.