An artist who infamously duped an art contest with an AI image is suing the U.S. Copyright Office over its refusal to register the image’s copyright.

In the lawsuit, Jason M. Allen asks a Colorado federal court to reverse the Copyright Office’s decision on his artwork Theatre D’opera Spatialbecause it was an expression of his creativity.

Reuters says the Copyright Office refused to comment on the case while Allen in a statement complains that the office’s decision “put me in a terrible position, with no recourse against others who are blatantly and repeatedly stealing my work.”

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    3 months ago

    If I made an image in photoshop, the computer made it, I just directed it.

    How is AI different?

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      3 months ago

      And that’s why I make art completely without instruction or man made tools. I actually independently developed cellphones and English purely to dunk on people on the internet.

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        3 months ago

        Funny but that is kind of my point, where is the line and why?

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      3 months ago

      What are you talking about? The computer didn’t make it. That’s like saying a paintbrush made a painting.

      That is not even close to AI image generation.