Does AI plagiarize artists?
This is not the only controversial copyright case involving generative platforms. Over the weekend, three visual artists launched a lawsuit against Stable Diffusion, Midjourney and DeviantArt for infringing on the rights of “millions of artists” in the entertainment on their tools.
Sarah Andersen, Kelly McKerman and Karla Ortiz filed the lawsuit through the Butterick Saveri law firm, which has another ongoing case against Microsoft, GitHub and OpenAI over the CoPilot AI programming model, which is allegedly trained with lines of code taken from the web.
But that is not the only accusation for the AI, because in addition to the lawsuits against them, criticism of their work is common and one of the harshest was made by the English singer, Nick Cave.
In his blog, the composer shared that he asked ChatGPT to write songs “in the style of Nick Cave” and the result was “like a parody”, because although they have the ability to write a speech, an essay or an obituary, “they cannot create a genuine song. The songs arise from suffering, which means they are based on the complex inner human struggle of creation and well, as far as I know, the algorithms don’t feel.”
