The discussion over novelty is useless, all these legal structures like copyrights patents royalties and licenses are about creating business structures to allow artist or inventors be compensated.
They were already imperfect in it and now suddenly a new technology drags their work into the wilderness with no stuctures for compensation.
The images created by the AI are indeed novel but they feed on the work of people who spent decades building this style. Of course artist themselves feed from each other but they usually don't interfere with the business. So let's say, if an artist developed a particular style and someone wants to hire them for a business project like a game they can't feasibly just learn that style and use it so they hire the artist. Later other people catch on this style and develop over it. It only works because monetising through copying the style is not very feasible.
Suddenly you have a machine that makes it feasible. Instead of hiring the artist or licensing their works, you train your machine on it and start generating any number of images of that style or combination with other style without paying the people who come up with all that.
How is the artist supposed to be compensated for spending years of developing that style/method?
I'm fine with getting rid of all that copyright and license stuff but let's not pretend that what's happening now is a fair endeavour.
They were already imperfect in it and now suddenly a new technology drags their work into the wilderness with no stuctures for compensation.
The images created by the AI are indeed novel but they feed on the work of people who spent decades building this style. Of course artist themselves feed from each other but they usually don't interfere with the business. So let's say, if an artist developed a particular style and someone wants to hire them for a business project like a game they can't feasibly just learn that style and use it so they hire the artist. Later other people catch on this style and develop over it. It only works because monetising through copying the style is not very feasible.
Suddenly you have a machine that makes it feasible. Instead of hiring the artist or licensing their works, you train your machine on it and start generating any number of images of that style or combination with other style without paying the people who come up with all that.
How is the artist supposed to be compensated for spending years of developing that style/method?
I'm fine with getting rid of all that copyright and license stuff but let's not pretend that what's happening now is a fair endeavour.