I assumed that it’d be Disney that would have struck the first blow, but then: Disney doesn’t watermark everything.
See, that’s the thing about AI: no sense of discernment, whatsoever. A human being would know to cut out the damn watermarks when doing crimes, but all this program knew was that a particular configuration of pixels showed up in a lot of photos. Must mean it’s important, right? Best stick it in a lot!
Oops.
Moe Lane
PS: My books are AI-free.
Now, that’s funny.
I still don’t see how Getty has an actual case, but their lawyers are absolutely rabid, and they’ve won any number of cases they shouldn’t have.
(I’m not kidding. In the area I now live, there’s a public park in the middle of the city. There’s a little hill in the park that has a beautiful view of the city’s skyline that’s beautifully framed by a gap it the trees.
Getty has decided it owns that view.
If you take a picture there and use it for anything remotely commercial, you will be sued, and they will do their level best to bankrupt you.