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Re: Sports Illustrated Published Articles by Fake, AI-Generated Writers

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That's not really how it works. That'd be like saying all oil paintings are in the public domain because paintbrushes can't hold copyright. The copyright goes to the person triggering the generation of the content similar to how if you use blur tool in photoshop you don't suddenly lose copyright.

Maybe that will be the case in future after a court decides so, but at present AI content does not get copyright protection. https://www.klgates.com/Federal-Court-Rules-Work-Generated-b...

> Maybe that will be the case in future after a court decides so, but at present AI content does not get copyright protection.

That's not what the article says.

The article says that an AI cannot hold copyright. This is not the same as AI content cannot be copyrighted. As I said before, a paintbrush cannot hold copyright; that does not mean a painter who used a paintbrush can't hold the copyright to the work.

This is basically the same thing as when that guy left a camera out and PETA tried to get the monkey that took the photo to be assigned copyright [1]. PETA failed; animals cannot hold copyright and the guy that left his camera out can.

[1]: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/01/judge-says-monke...

Re: Sports Illustrated Published Articles by Fake, AI-Generated Writers

#82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe that will be the case in future after a court decides so, but at present AI content does not get copyright protection. https://www.klgates.com/Federal-Court-Rules-Work-Generated-b...

> Maybe that will be the case in future after a court decides so, but at present AI content does not get copyright protection. That's not what the article says. The article says that an AI cannot hold copyright. This is not the same as AI content cannot be copyrighted. As I said before, a paintbrush cannot hold copyright; that does not mean a painter who used a paintbrush can't hold the copyright to the work. This is…

That's a common legal hypothesis that's been suggested regarding AI. Has any US court accepted the 'paintbrush' argument as applying to AI-created works?

Re: Sports Illustrated Published Articles by Fake, AI-Generated Writers

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I now want to make a food blog where it's all AI generated, but using exclusively awful recipes.

That's a great idea. But instead of using AI to generate it, you should write it yourself while trying to sound like you're an AI. Then get into arguments in the comments about how you really are a machine.

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Re: Sports Illustrated Published Articles by Fake, AI-Generated Writers

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Maybe that will be the case in future after a court decides so, but at present AI content does not get copyright protection. https://www.klgates.com/Federal-Court-Rules-Work-Generated-b...

> Maybe that will be the case in future after a court decides so, but at present AI content does not get copyright protection. That's not what the article says. The article says that an AI cannot hold copyright. This is not the same as AI content cannot be copyrighted. As I said before, a paintbrush cannot hold copyright; that does not mean a painter who used a paintbrush can't hold the copyright to the work. This is…

You're forgetting that the guy who left the camera out for the monkeys to take pictures with had his copyright claim denied. He subsequently made some money from a book about the project and selling the rights for a documentary.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_selfie_copyright_disput...

Re: Sports Illustrated Published Articles by Fake, AI-Generated Writers

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Tangentially related: " Microsoft Publishes Garbled AI Article [0] Calling Tragically Deceased NBA Player 'Useless' " [1] [0] https://web.archive.org/web/20230913163653/https://www.msn.c... [1] https://futurism.com/msn-ai-brandon-hunter-useless

FWIW, I don't think that one was even using any kind of modern AI. The bizarre phrasing is characteristic of the article having been run through a "spinner" tool which randomly substitutes words or phrases for synonyms, without any regard to context -- which is how it ended up saying he "handed away" (passed away) after having played as an "ahead" (forward). These tools have existed since the late 2000s, but were mos…

"The African-American plague killed a third of Europe"

Re: Sports Illustrated Published Articles by Fake, AI-Generated Writers

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For years, ESPN has put machine generated predictions of upcoming games. https://www.espn.com/nba/preview/_/gameId/401584885 "The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar." Example paragraph: "The two teams match up for the second time this season. The Nuggets defeated the Clippers 111-108 in their last meeting on Nov. 15. Jokic led the Nuggets with 32 poin…

Yahoo fantasy football does this with each weekly head to head matchup. They're clearly labeled as machine generated ("Powered by ChatGPT API") and add a little fun.

I've long thought that would be a nice use case for the game of Diplomacy. End of round recaps by a "witty" chatbot.

Re: Sports Illustrated Published Articles by Fake, AI-Generated Writers

#89

I ran the supposedly AI-generated text through an AI detector, it's not hard to do. 0% probability it was AI-generated. Bad human writing exists too.

Ai writing detectors are not a useful tool. Might as well use a polygraph
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