AI is coming for your job and soon it's going to take over the world. Just kidding that's not

necessarily the case here but especially in recent weeks AI has been getting a lot of

negative attention thanks to the lawsuits piling up against it.

At first, the lawsuit seemed like it was a matter of artists fighting against the machine.

PR Newswire reported that three of them, Sarah Anderson, Kelly McKernan, and Carla Ortiz,

filed a lawsuit against Stability AI, Deviant Art, and Mid Journey due to copyright infringement.

Deviant Art, by the way, recently made its own AI Art Gener art generator called Dream Up so that's kind of what that's in reference to

Now according to the complaint images contained in the Lion data set were downloaded and used by these generators without compensation or consent

from those artists. The three also expressed concern saying that they had to stick up

for their profession and hard work before they were effectively replaced by a machine.

Many may argue that hey that's not a risk because AI doesn't really have the capability of

being original, but do humans really have that ability anymore.

Isn't everything out there to some extent derivative of something we already know?

Before we get too philosophical here, let's get back to if AI should even be allowed to do

something like this in the first place.

Frankly, the question of AI being fair use is kind of a tricky one because while anyone

can look at a public image with no problem, if they're using it to create another separate image and then profiting from it, is that fair use?

Shouldn't these artists be protected by copyright, especially when AI is being trained on their images and in essence recreating them.

Plus, any of the art that AI does create won't have any copyright protection whatsoever

either because the US won't give copyright protection to works solely created by a machine.

Looking at it from these essential basic angles, the complaints these artists make seem incredibly

valid, and it's a bit hard to be sympathetic towards a machine anyway.

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