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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 9579567" data-attributes="member: 29398">Not for me, it wouldn't be. For me, I'd hire an artist to take the vision in my head - not theirs - and turn it into reality; I'd be hiring the artist not for their imagination or creativity but instead for their ability and talent at producing to specifications.Directly analagous to providing a musician with sheet music and style notes and asking it be played exactly as written, vs leaving it up to the musician to interpret and maybe on-the-fly modify what's on the sheets.Ideally, the visual reference I provide would already be within rounding error of the final image I want.&nbsp; Problem is, the only means open to me of getting that visual reference is AI, as I'm the only person who can see what's in my head and thus (unless I want to frustrate an artist to insanity) I have to be the one producing that visual reference.Ideally the AI-generated visual reference would already be good enough that I could just use that for the final image, but that's verboten it seems.So if I'm reading this right, a hand-made duplicate could be copyrighted but the AI-generated original version could not.And then there's the even fuzzier question of an artist taking an AI-made image and hand-altering it to a greater or lesser extent, but without re-doing the whole image from scratch (if memory serves, this is what got that WotC artist in trouble) - what happens then?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 9579567, member: 29398"] Not for me, it wouldn't be. For me, I'd hire an artist to take the vision in [I]my[/I] head - not theirs - and turn it into reality; I'd be hiring the artist not for their imagination or creativity but instead for their ability and talent at producing to specifications. Directly analagous to providing a musician with sheet music and style notes and asking it be played exactly as written, vs leaving it up to the musician to interpret and maybe on-the-fly modify what's on the sheets. Ideally, the visual reference I provide would already be within rounding error of the final image I want. Problem is, the only means open to me of getting that visual reference is AI, as I'm the only person who can see what's in my head and thus (unless I want to frustrate an artist to insanity) I have to be the one producing that visual reference. Ideally the AI-generated visual reference would already be good enough that I could just use that for the final image, but that's verboten it seems. So if I'm reading this right, a hand-made duplicate could be copyrighted but the AI-generated original version could not. And then there's the even fuzzier question of an artist taking an AI-made image and hand-altering it to a greater or lesser extent, but without re-doing the whole image from scratch (if memory serves, this is what got that WotC artist in trouble) - what happens then? [/QUOTE]

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