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Richard Donnelly's avatar

Love the visual. Very Hopper-ish. Future classics in any genre are nearly always buried by Spiderman. But then they have long lives. Like, forever.

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Josh Spilker's avatar

Thanks on the image! I prompt the DALL-E with Hopper

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Richard Donnelly's avatar

Could you clarify? Does the image have no copyright? Just wondering because it's a fabulous image.

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Josh Spilker's avatar

no, DALL-E is an AI image generator.

The prompt for this one was: "person watching movies alone, in a theater, in the oil painting style of Edward Hopper's Early Sunday Morning”

It gave me 4 options and I chose this one

I know "Early Sunday Morning" is only of a building, but the AI seems more receptive to that than "Nighthawks" or "Morning Sun" which are other ones I prompt with him. I like doing office ones, so I should probably try "Office in a Small City" in the prompt

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Richard Donnelly's avatar

Thanks. This is somewhat remarkable. When I've seen AI do anything, it's laughably incompetent. For instance AI -based help desks. It's one bad steer after the next. AI can't even use consistent terms. Example:

AI: Click the Proceed button.

Me: There is no Proceed button.

AI: Click the Accept button.

So I'm amazed AI produced such a beautiful and evocative image. Again, who owns the copyright? When I Google, most sites say no one. This is wild. I mean, YOU prompted AI. YOU used your imagination in describing what was needed. YOU selected from a variety of images. That you don't own the copyright is disturbing.

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Josh Spilker's avatar

good question, i haven't really investigated it!

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Richard Donnelly's avatar

Personally, I'd claim copyright. Just because you used really good tools doesn't mean it's not yours. If I use CAD instead of a drafting desk that doesn't mean I didn't design the house.

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