I would like to use the image I created for a book cover and sell it, would that be okay? Or would that be illegal?
Dangerous question to ask on Lemmy with a strong anti-AI “in any form” presence
Yea it would be ok, no it won’t be illegal, though it might not be copyrightable
Is your audience the average joe? They probably won’t even notice tbh
Yes, but it will make your book look trashy.
Ai art makes a book look like a machine wrote it, unfortunately. Getting art from a living person kinda ups the sincerity, I think.
You could, but I wouldn’t buy it. I want art that someone sweated, swore and agonised over.
You could, but I wouldn’t buy it.
If you noticed…
I demand that my books are written by hand, with a quill pen, by candlelight. I need to know that some effort went into the creative process.
And the author should be syphilitic and working in a drafty garret, at the very least.
Why not pay a local artist to make you a cover?
Skip the whole moral/legal hurdle and help support someone being affected by AIs takeover. I’m sure you can come to a reasonable agreement.
Or put together one yourself. A photo and some filters; or a stylized painting tool.
I wouldn’t buy that book
So You will literally judge a book, by it’s cover.
Well duh, that’s why publishers use cover art
If the author is ok with profiting off of unpaid labor then I don’t care to read what they have to say
It may vary depending on your jurisdiction. Under US copyright law, I believe that generated images are not copyrightable, so you wouldn’t have any protections from anyone copying your cover, but I doubt that’s a big concern. The model or service that you use may also have various terms in their license that restrict what you are allowed to do with the generated images. Finally, you also need to make sure that your image isn’t violating someone else’s copyright. If you generate an image that is too similar to an existing image, that could be problematic.
Okay, yes, I don’t care if someone uses the image afterwards, and I’m not trying to copy someone else’s work either…so the big if for me is…
“is terms in their license that restrict what you are allowed to do with the generated images.”
I’m not trying to copy someone else’s work either
ah i have bad news for you on how all current ai generation systems work
I have bad news for you, that’s how humans work too. They get trained on how to draw/paint/etc. on copyrighted material, then make derivatives.
Yes but ai doesn’t add anything new. The artists in our history we value are often valued because they challenged artistic conventions. An LLM literally cannot do this.
The difference is that a human inputs their labor into their art, therefore adding value. When a machine takes hundreds of peoples labor and sells it without compensation it is exploitative but when I view hundreds of peoples labor, learn from it and add my own, I am participating in a valuable human tradition.
Fair enough!
Its legal but unethical. If you do this you are profiting off of unpaid labor.
I don’t think it would be illegal as long as a similar human-created work would be legal (i.e., it doesn’t use trademarked characters or otherwise infringe on other works). But your publisher and/or readers might object.
I’m using perchance.org
