Your first draft isn’t an unoriginal idea expressed clearly; it’s an original idea expressed poorly

I like this a lot. I’m going to thieve it.

Maybe a better analogy would be the Ship of Theseus - how much of an AI-generated picture has to be replaced by human work for it to not be considered slop anymore?

I’ve seen the argument that if you’re generating an image and making some edits, you’re robbing yourself of original concepts

This argument can also be deployed against Fair Use artworks, though, or tracing.

Iraq war veteran

He has a history of terroristic activities, you say?

As with much discussion of generative AI, the difficulty of Hooded Horse’s position is pinning down what they’re trying to ban. Does an artwork count as generated if somebody used the tech to make a base image of some kind, then fleshed it out and finished it off at length by hand?

A very salient question. Is someone generates a rough outline and then redraws it, fixing errors and making modifications with their human artist eye, is the thing they draw a problem? It will involve a human artist, and human artistic skill.

Tracing is one way to teach children how to draw. If someone generates an image to trace for practice, is all their art problematic because they were trained with AI?

This seems kind of like asking a vegan if they’d eat lab-grown meat… I think the answer depends heavily on why the person believes what they do in the first place.

I just thought: what if this is a long play, to get bad lawyers into positions where they can set precedent?

Maybe we shouldn’t be so quick to log this off as a Texas problem.

Later, in Texas: