Copyright law is going to get real interesting

As millions of people are playing with AI-powered image-generation tools like DALL-E and Midjourney, new works of art are generated by the billions. Many of them are curiosities, some of them are legitimately incredible works of art that I wouldn't hesitate to stick on my wall. In fact, I did; I have a Meural digital art display, and it's currently playing a rotation of some of the most interesting works of art Midjourney has generated for me. The picture above made me think, though; the prompt for it is "Lovers, in the style of Banksy," which is remarkably close, stylistically, as a lot of other Banksy works -- it even put the frame on it for me, unprompted. With a small amount of manual retouching (or with a lot more experimentation), I am confident I could get Midjourney to generate a work that anybody would recognize as "a Banksy." It's paintbrushes at dawn as artists feel the pressure of AI-generated art The challenge becomes complex, and I'm going to be keeping a very close eye on the legal universe to see how this is going to evolve over time.