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Why This Award-Winning Piece of AI Art Can’t Be Copyrighted (www.wired.com)

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Why This Award-Winning Piece of AI Art Can’t Be Copyrighted::Matthew Allen’s AI art won first prize at the Colorado State Fair. But the US government has ruled it can’t be copyrighted because it’s too much “machine” and not enough “human.”

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[-] trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world 29 points 10 months ago

iirc it was submitted to a small art contest without disclosing it's AI generated and it won a prize... which made a lot of people very mad

[-] nandeEbisu@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

If this is the one in thinking of, they disclosed it was made using midjourney, but the judges didn't know what that meant and didn't ask.

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