Open Ai Copy Ghibli without the agreement of Miyazaki – Liberation
Ouhlala, thanks to AI, we can generate an image of Nicolas Sarkozy resembling My neighbor Totoro, It’s funny! Even if Hayao Miyazaki, famous Japanese creator of animated films, inventor of Totoro, does not touch a penny of copyright for having trained the machine? After the online on Wednesday of the latest version of artificial generative Chatgpt from Openai, many Internet users have generated images on social networks visibly inspired by the style of Ghibli studio. What to suspect, if it is still necessary to do so, the American company for having led to its models with thousands of content protected by copyrightwithout request for consent, without transparency, without remuneration.
AFP confirmed this Friday morning: the American company did not take a license agreement with the Japanese studio. Open Ai sometimes recognizes the merits of passing it: for example, the company has established a partnership with the newspaper The world, which authorizes him to train his machines with his information in exchange for a secret remuneration. The fact remains that the legislation in this area always sails in the gray zone. One of the tech giant spokespersons told AFP home ethics concerning the use of works of art to train its models: « We prevent the creation of content inspired specifically with living artists, but we allow it for the style of a studio, which is wider. »
Let us recall that the Anglo-Saxon hegemonic societies reject the accusations of looting by the artists and their beneficiaries each novel by Patrick Modiano or Photo by Martin Parr weighing unitary nothing, or almost, in the general system, the companies invoke the « Fair Use », famous limitation to the exclusive rights of an author on his work. And it is the general interest in the particular interest of the artist that the Open AI spokesperson still invokes: « Our goal is to offer users as much creative freedom as possible. » The White House itself thanks them. On Thursday, she posted an image of a Dominican national arrested for drug trafficking transformed into a Ghibli style drawing. The Japanese studio, at this hour, has not yet communicated around any damage to its moral law. But Open AI has since operated a turnaround by blocking this feature for free uses.
