AI created a full-fledged comic, but they refused to recognize him as the author

In September of this year, Chris Kashtanova announced that she had received copyrights in the United States for the comic book "Dawn"

dawn", inspired by the image of herdeceased grandmother. The entire comic was created using the Midjourney text-to-image engine. Kashtanova described herself only as a “rapid engineering specialist.” She believes that it was necessary to prove that despite the fact that the product was created using AI, copyright on it still needs to be secured.

Author: kris.s.kashtanova

In fact, this is a work of art created inAI machine learning process, which means that the computer/machine learned information such as other artists' past work and art style, as well as character and image descriptions, and then generated a new image using the knowledge gained. However, this knowledge loaded into the machine almost always comes from humans, who also often enter specific guidelines into the machine to create the art, but the actual final creation is made by the computer/machine (in this case, it would be Midjourney).

United States Copyright Office formerlyrefused to grant copyright protection to AI-generated art, including earlier in 2022 when it denied protection to Stephen Thaler and his AI-generated painting A Recent Entrance to Paradise. Thaler then sued the Copyright Office, so getting Dawn of Dawn approved was naturally an unexpected turn of events.

Author: kris.s.kashtanova

However, in a post on her Facebook pageKashtanova said that the Bureau contacted her to let her know that they initiated a defense withdrawal procedure, explaining that they mistakenly overlooked that Midjourney created the comic (despite Midjourney being credited on the cover of the comic). The Bureau gave Kashtanova 30 days to appeal its decision. In the appeal process, copyright is still in effect.

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