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Outside Silicon Valley, fear and outrage are ramping up against AI image generators.
While there’s a long-established culture of creating fan art from copyrighted manga and anime, many are drawing a line in the sand with AI image generators. I spoke to generative AI companies, illustrators, and legal experts, who saw this backlash as being rooted in the intense loyalty of anime and manga circles — and, in Japan, the lenient laws on copyright and data-scraping. The rise of generative AI isn’t just blurring lines around ownership and liability, but already stoking panic that artists in these industries will lose their livelihoods.
October 2022, Rest of World
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