I would like to use the image I created for a book cover and sell it, would that be okay? Or would that be illegal?
Dangerous question to ask on Lemmy with a strong anti-AI “in any form” presence
Yea it would be ok, no it won’t be illegal, though it might not be copyrightable
Is your audience the average joe? They probably won’t even notice tbh
Yes, but it will make your book look trashy.
i once wanted to read a book, and upon closer inspection saw it was ai generated cover. I put it down, and left. it just doesnt feel real i guess. so even if legal, i wouldnt recommend it. just snap some picture remotely related and put some Text and color filters over it.
I agree. I avoid any AI gen smell. It has the hallmarks of being subpar. Any images, however esoteric, would be much better.
Why not pay a local artist to make you a cover?
Skip the whole moral/legal hurdle and help support someone being affected by AIs takeover. I’m sure you can come to a reasonable agreement.
Or put together one yourself. A photo and some filters; or a stylized painting tool.
I wouldn’t buy that book
So You will literally judge a book, by it’s cover.
Well duh, that’s why publishers use cover art
I’m not judging the book by its cover, rather the author.
BRB calling the fire department for this burn.
You could, but I wouldn’t buy it. I want art that someone sweated, swore and agonised over.
I demand that my books are written by hand, with a quill pen, by candlelight. I need to know that some effort went into the creative process.
And the author should be syphilitic and working in a drafty garret, at the very least.
It may vary depending on your jurisdiction. Under US copyright law, I believe that generated images are not copyrightable, so you wouldn’t have any protections from anyone copying your cover, but I doubt that’s a big concern. The model or service that you use may also have various terms in their license that restrict what you are allowed to do with the generated images. Finally, you also need to make sure that your image isn’t violating someone else’s copyright. If you generate an image that is too similar to an existing image, that could be problematic.
Okay, yes, I don’t care if someone uses the image afterwards, and I’m not trying to copy someone else’s work either…so the big if for me is…
“is terms in their license that restrict what you are allowed to do with the generated images.”
I’m not trying to copy someone else’s work either
ah i have bad news for you on how all current ai generation systems work
I have bad news for you, that’s how humans work too. They get trained on how to draw/paint/etc. on copyrighted material, then make derivatives.
Be that as it may, I’ve seen a lot of art and made some myself, but recreating a Sistine Chapel is not in within my reach for the foreseeable future.
It’s not like Michelangelo did it without significant training.
“Among them was Domenico Ghirlandaio, a master in fresco painting, perspective, figure drawing and portraiture who had the largest workshop in Florence.[16] In 1488, at the age of 13, Michelangelo was apprenticed to Ghirlandaio.” -From Wikipedia
He didn’t paint the chapel until 20 years later.
Fair enough!
Ai art makes a book look like a machine wrote it, unfortunately. Getting art from a living person kinda ups the sincerity, I think.
I don’t think it would be illegal as long as a similar human-created work would be legal (i.e., it doesn’t use trademarked characters or otherwise infringe on other works). But your publisher and/or readers might object.
I’m using perchance.org
