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I have to talk about this goober and I
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apologize because I know so many people
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are tired of hearing about AI but I
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cannot fight this urge it's like Gollum
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with the One Ring here the more and more
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I read about this dweeb the less and
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less I can resist speaking about it an
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AI artist and that is a word I'm using
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very Loosey Goosey when referring to
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this gentle sir has The Hoots butut to
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attempt to appeal the copyright offic
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decision to reject copyright protection
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to his AI generated art piece his name
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is Jason M Allen you've probably seen
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this picture that he AI generated
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because it won an art competition like
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two years ago and it was a huge story
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because AI art had just won an art
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contest so it led to a lot of hoopla he
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is trying to copyright that piece it was
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rejected he's salty and he's attempting
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to appeal it I believe the copyright
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office made the right decision saying no
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sir and just putting the kabash on that
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copyrighting an AI generated piece is
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like trying to copyright a [ __ ] wet
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dream that you had it's so silly and
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Jason M Allen's attitude about AI art I
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think is just so pretentious and
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misguided that it is compelling me to
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talk about this because I just think
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it's so delusional he described his
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creative process with mid Journey as an
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inative process where he provides
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detailed and repeated prompts to
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generate images he argues AI is simply
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another tool like a brush or camera
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I would challenge anyone to prove that
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it's otherwise it is a program it is a
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machine it's a device that people can
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use to technologically make their lives
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more efficient hey pal you just blow in
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from stupid town I'll accept that
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challenge Jason a brush or a camera does
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not create anything for you you behind
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the camera and the brush still have to
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make the art this does it for you it's
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not the [ __ ] Disney Channel Greg
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where you'd like hold out the brush and
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you'd make the Mickey Mouse ears and it
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just appears before you you still have
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to be talented in order to use the tools
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like a brush or camera to create art
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when it comes to AI you don't have to
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have talent at all I've personally
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generated hundreds of silly AI art
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pieces over the last couple of years
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because anybody can do it if you have a
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keyboard it doesn't take a Galaxy brain
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gifted human being to do so but would
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you consider me an artist I certainly
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hope not I have nipples Greg can you
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milk me here let me just showcase the
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difference between real art and AI art
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this is one of the best pieces that the
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world has ever seen that's a portrait of
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me that I'm holding in the thumbnail
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here so when I first went to college I
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was doing Digital Arts and I had no
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talent for it whatsoever so that is a
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portrait I made of myself I'm sure you
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can see the resemblances on CY I really
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captured my my appearance one to one and
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to expand on that even further here's a
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portrait I made of my father in the same
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course that year at college when I was
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doing art that piece still makes me
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laugh to that to this day that I think
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is probably one of the finest things
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that has ever been put to paper like
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since the beginning with Papyrus till
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this day I I think that is the finest
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artistic work ever created that portrait
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of my [ __ ] dad but now let me show
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you what my AI art looks like here's
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some Heisenberg pieces that I generated
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two years ago wow I really got a lot
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better didn't I Jason it's stupid to
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make the argument that AI is just tool
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and you still need to have talent as an
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artist to use it like it's some kind of
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Excalibur or something that you need to
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train with is outrageous it is
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delusional look at me using actual art
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tools and you can see I am not a
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talented artist at all and I took two
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years of art courses and only marginally
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improved that is something you have to
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work at for years with AI art I type in
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a single sentence and it does it for me
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to compare a brush and a camera to AI
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generated art like using mid journey is
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laughable Jason that's the reason people
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shoot spitballs at you brother it's a
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stupid take to have he also couldn't
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resist throwing a little pity party and
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playing a sad song on the world's
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smallest violin saying I have lost a lot
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of respect for artists especially those
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who attack me and continue to attack me
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I'm standing in defense of my rights to
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express myself using AI generative tools
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and against a popular narrative that a
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lot of people for some unknown agenda
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are pushing really hard to prevent
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people from being able to express
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themselves I don't know what ghost
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you're fighting I I don't know what
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you're even referring to here if you're
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just AI generating art on your own who
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cares no one cares it's the fact that
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you're trying to copyright it man and
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the fact that you're entering it into
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art competitions against Real artists
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and I know that term has been super
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muddied real artist but I think most
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samean people can agree that someone
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just AI generating art is not an artist
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by any sense of the word you are typing
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in sentences and letting the machine
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make whatever it envisions the hardest
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part of your creative process Jason and
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I cannot believe he has the hootspa to
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call it creative process is just hitting
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enter multiple times as he said he just
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repeats The Prompt enough until it spits
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out an image that he's satisfied with
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where is the creative process there
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Jason you type in a sentence and then
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just have it keep repeating the process
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till you get something you like oh God
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it's just so silly he says as AI
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continues to evolve it is imperative
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that our legal framework adapts to
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protect the rights of humans who harness
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technology for Creative expression which
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is a complete load of horseradish
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because it has nothing to do with
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creative expression if you want to
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personally just generate AI art on your
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own go wild I don't think there's anyone
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in the world who actually gives a [ __ ]
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if you want to make James Cordon as
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Vegeta destroying Planet Namek and use
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mid Journey For It Go For It nobody
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cares man it's when you try and sell it
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and try and license it and copyright it
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this and that that people obviously take
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an issue because it's ridiculous man and
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let's not pretend this is about creative
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expression Jason it's all about how he's
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not able to make money off of his AI art
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he's saying that the cop copyright
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denial significantly impacted his career
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I have experienced price erosion in the
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sense that there is a perceived lower
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value of my work which is impacted my
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ability to charge industry standard
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licensing fees I don't know who the [ __ ]
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would pay for AI art in the year 2024 if
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you like an AI art piece just generate
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it yourself Jesus Christ like you you
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can just do it yourself why would you
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ever pay money for it but whatever he
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then went on to say that it put me in a
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terrible position with no recourse
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against others who are blatantly and
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repeated stealing my work it's kind of
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ironic don't you think Jason AI art is
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trained on real artists work in order
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for it to generate the way that it does
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blatantly just stealing their work and
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copying it in order to generate pieces
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based on it I also love that there's a
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little Peak under the hood here we get a
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little taste of the secret sauce he told
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the office that he created the art with
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the generative AI system mid journey by
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testing hundreds of prompt iterations my
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God backbreaking labor he typed hundreds
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of words damn it and it with Photoshop
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yeah I'm sure he did a ton of altering
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the office rejected Allan's application
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after he refused to disclaim the parts
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of the image that mid Journey generated
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Mr Allen had a specific artistic idea
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conceived of in his mind and he used mid
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Journey as a tool to create an artistic
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expression of that idea such creative
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input is on par with that expressed by
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other types of artists and is capable of
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copyright protection goofball I have
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hundred hundreds of artistic ideas and
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Visions in my head that I can never
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bring to life cuz I'm not a talented
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artist it What Separates Me from actual
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talented artists that's the whole point
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man and it's fine if you want to
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generate what's in your head using AI
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art I don't think that's a big deal at
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all the problem comes when you try and
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copyright it you try and sell it or you
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try and deceive people with it or you
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try and use AI art tools as a means of
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pushing out real artists that's the main
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problem with AI art and I'm sure you've
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all heard it a million times but it's
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true companies are going to be shifting
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to AI art because it's cheaper and they
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can itely generate art without needing
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to pay actual artist a salary or
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anything and it is a grim future because
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of things like that but if you want to
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generate AI art pieces that just take
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what's up here in your noodle and put it
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on to a picture go for it but why are
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you going to try and make the argument
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that you're some real artist you're
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going to try and copyright it you're
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going to try and license it it's stupid
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I think that's so dumb if Jason was just
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a little more honest with himself like
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hey I just kind of type sentences into
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mid journey and I got to really cool
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picture from it then no one would care
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but right now he's opened a goddamn case
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about it because he's so butt hurt that
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they refuse to protect his AI generated
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piece with a copyright protection like
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what the [ __ ] man it's so dumb it's so
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dumb I had to talk about this but so
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anyway that's really about it see you