Raw LLM Responses

An important note about "made by a human." If you modify art that is computer generated, that still counts as you making that art, if you make any substantive changes to what was generated. You do not need to create from scratch the image the AI generated. If you apply a choice of photoshop filters to some computer generated chebychev noise patterns to make it look like weird shaped paving stones, this still counts as you the artist doing the artwork. Similar for photographic collage (provided the photos you are using are either something you have license to, or do not individually make up a substantive part of the finished piece.) Collage comes with its own legal baggage, but in the case of AI generated images, you can safely piece together many images generated by AI, into one finished piece, and that still counts as your work. Similarly, artwork that is superficially similar to an existing piece is not the same as infringement. The context in which the art is used does in fact matter. ATOMIC FE Man who is a rusty red robot with some yellow spots, would be infringing on ironman if you just wrote him in as iron man, but if you wrote him in as a gag character, that would be parody, which is fair use. This next part I say as an artist to other artists. Once you've put your art out there to be seen, you have divested yourself of the rights to declare who/what may not see it and be inspired by it. If you made it publicly visible, you accepted that other art may be influenced by it implicitly and you cannot ever take it back. Do not show your art to anyone, if you don't want it to be used as inspiration for new art, it doesn't matter whether its by a metal organism, or a flesh machine. The only way to protect it from being used exactly as the AI does, is to not show it to anything or anyone, and to behave as if you have the right to decide whether or not it can be used as inspiration is pure _arrogance._