Why the Furor Over AI Image Generation Copyright is Misplaced

A technical perspective, not a legal one

Image copyright??? Generated by StableDiffusion with the prompt “a misty, beautiful landscape with a magical castle in the distance, by Alphonse Mucha”

Right now AI art generation is making the news all over the internet — it started with the incredible images produced by Dall-E 2, then MidJourney hit, and it was a game changer. AI art started showing up everywhere. The next thing to appear on the scene was StableDiffusion, an open-source AI…