Coming out of Twitter retirement to post this development in the artist case against StabilityAI, Midjourney, and DeviantArt. The judge has dismissed most of the claims. drive.google.com/file/d/19oLqGe…
The claims from two artists that failed to register their works before filing have been dismissed with prejudice. The remaining case seems weak, the artist hasn't provided infringing outputs, so all is left is the potential infringement in the inputs.

Finally managed to read the latest case against OpenAI. I've been expecting this one, everything else has been just a prologue, this is likely to be the one that sets precedent one way or another. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco… While I expect some of the other lawsuits to be settled out of court, or maybe even be dismissed, Authors Guild brings the big guns, this was always going to be settled by the intervention of the large copyright holders with good lawyers.

I've been a bit surprised that the Thaler decision is getting some attention, this is a completely expected and unsurprising result that doesn't tell us much about the wider copyright AI debates. Here's the decision. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco… This requires some background. Dr Stephen Thaler has been pushing the concept of AI patents for a few years now. He built a software called DABUS which made three inventions, and proceeded to apply for patent in various countries. law.kuleuven.be/citip/blog/the…

The case for intellectual creation in the making of an AI image using MidJourney. Part of the work is in the prompt, it takes time to know what to ask. Here's the prompt "futuristic city under a dome digital art deviantart high detail high definition octane render" I then select one I like, and ask for an upscale. I go for the first image.