Are AI illustrations copyrighted? | Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

The reasons for doubt and resistance differ from one technology to another, but at the center of this resistance, like Calestous Juma (author of Innovation and its enemies: why people resist new technologies) argues, is that people “sense of what it means to be human lies at the root of some of the skepticism about technological innovation.

Currently, generative AI technologies and more specifically AI art generators are at the center of the storm. Reasons? Plagiarism, inauthenticity, lack of originality, among various other reasons.

AI art generators are programs endowed with immense computing capabilities that make them capable of generating photorealistic images from text prompts.

Anyone can, in a matter of seconds, generate a ‘unique’ work of art based on a few textual phrases or visual cues. This is all good until we take into account how AI art generators work.

But to understand the AI ​​copyright issue, we need to understand how these AI generators work.