Can AI Learn from Artwork in the Same Way Humans Do?
Is it fair for AI models to learn from copyrighted artwork without permission, assuming they learn in the same way artists learn from each other?
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I use AI a lot in my daily life, and it’s been incredibly helpful. I’ve even given my ChatGPT a name: “Doraemon,” and I’ve trained it to call me “Es,” which is how I like everyone to call me. When I start a new chat, I greet it, politely ask it to do tasks, and thank it when it helps me.
While this is the way we typically interact with humans, I still believe that AI doesn’t have the same capabilities as humans. We can’t consider it human or grant it the same rights and freedoms because, even though the results might be similar, AI doesn’t achieve them in the same way.
AI Generates Maths not Art
AI models rely on learning elements of music theory such as intervals, chords, scales, chord progressions, rhythms, and more.
They are trained on an enormous number of tracks annotated with these elements and the relationships between them using highly complex mathematical equations.
With this knowledge, an AI model can generate melodies that follow the same patterns, rules, and mathematical principles it has learned.
However, AI models are not aware that they are creating music or art.
For them, a melody is simply a sequence of notes, and they predict the next note by calculating the probability of each possible note and selecting the one with the highest likelihood.
AI uses a similar technique to create harmony, chord progressions, and other aspects of music production.
Let’s Assume We Treat AI Like Humans
Let’s assume we should allow AI to learn from any copyrighted artwork without needing permission from the owners, just as human artists learn from others’ styles and apply them in their own work.
Imagine you’re an artist, writer, or musician. You’re famous, and many of your peers analyze your work as a way to learn and find inspiration for their own creations. It’s gratifying when your talent and effort lead to such recognition and success.
But how would you feel if you discovered that some people were imitating your style exactly, without adding anything new, and using it to create complete works that they profit from commercially? You’d likely be upset to see someone copying the style you spent years developing, and you wouldn’t consider such art to be truly creative.
That’s exactly what AI does. It generates new art in the same styles it has learned, as it can’t be creative like humans and develop its own unique styles.
Conclusion
AI cannot learn and create art in the way humans do.
Learning from and being inspired by others’ work is entirely different from copying it.
AI doesn’t recognize that it’s creating artwork, which should be full of feelings, ideas, and emotions. It merely processes it as numbers and equations, so it cannot be truly creative or inspired. It only imitates patterns.
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