alt Hacker NewsYou can't put a copyright and MIT license on something you generated with AI. It is derived from the work of many unknown, uncredited authors.
Think about it; the license says that copies of the work must be reproduced with the copyright notice and licensing clauses intact. Why would anyone obey that, knowing it came from AI?
Countless instances of such licenses were ignored in the training data.
Replies
moralestapia • yesterday at 7:45 PM
Courts have already ruled that AI-generated work belongs to the public domain. So, even the MIT license does not apply.
When learning is sufficiently atomized and recombined, creations cease to be "derived from" in a legal sense.
A lego sculpture is copyrighted. Lego blocks are not. The threshold between blocks and sculpture is not well-defined, but if an AI isn't prompted specifically to attempt to mimic an existing work, its output will be safely on the non-copyrighted side of things.
A derivative work is separately copyrightable, but redistribution needs permission from the original author too. Since that usually won't be granted or would be uneconomical, the derivative work can't usually be redistributed.
AI-produced material is inherently not copyrightable, but not because it's a derivative work.