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Google Whisky, Pixels, and AI: How AI Learned to Paint Without a Hangover

The Brave New World of Pixel Sorcery Let me tell you about the latest technological marvel that's simultaneously impressing and terrifying humanity: AI image generation. Imagine a world where you can create images faster than you can say "copyright infringement" - welcome to 2025, where artificial intelligence has basically become that creative friend who always claims they can draw anything, but now...  actually can! Whisky, Pixels, and AI: How AI Learned to Paint Without a Hangover The Magical Realm of AI-Whisky Google's new tool "Whisk" is like a digital magician that takes your images and transforms them into something... well, something. It's essentially a technological game of telephone, where you upload a picture, and the AI goes, "Hmm, I see a cat. But what if that cat was riding a unicycle through medieval Paris while dressed as Napoleon?" Picture this scenario: You upload a lovely family photo from your beach vacation, and sudden...

The Robo-Rights

Copyright Protection: The Rise of Robo-Rights! There’s a growing debate among copyright lawyers about whether the producer of graphical AI technologies, such as MidJourney and Dall-E, should be granted copyright protection. The rule of the Copyright Office, so far at least, is that they should not. Maybe, the Office suggests, if the artist demonstrates sufficiently creative prompts. But so far, the Copyright Office has rejected copyright in every case presented to it. AI Artists Demand Copyright Protection: The Rise of Robo-Rights! This conclusion is not just wrong. It is a strategic mistake. There is no reason under existing law why the user of a machine that produces creative work shouldn’t be granted a copyright. And the chance to craft a regime that could efficiently secure copyright to the users of AI is an opportunity for copyright generally that we should not miss.   In a world where humans and AI collaborate to create art, we must acknowledge the role of the human artist op...