AI/LLMs Plagiarism vs. Inspiration

[Bagpuss]

Ideas are easy.

I not sure that is true for everyone, at least not coming up with something original. I agree taking an idea to something that can be actually worth publishing and sharing is work and hard. But I think just coming up with fresh interesting ideas themselves isn't straight forward for everyone. I think you will find a lot of people struggle to come up with anything truely original or new.

 

[Shades of Eternity]

my big problem is my ideas are relatively original (and I have both copies of the original attempts and an extensive bibliography to prove it), but I can't draw, I don't want to rip off artists (artists get paid, end of discussion), but every time I commissioned art, it basically destroyed any chance of having a project to pay for itself, much less make any money. I just want to show cool things and have fun. I'm feeling like Gonzo the Great sometimes.

 

[Morrus]

I not sure that is true for everyone, at least not coming up with something original. I agree taking an idea to something that can be actually worth publishing and sharing is work and hard. But I think just coming up with fresh interesting ideas themselves isn't straight forward for everyone. I think you will find a lot of people struggle to come up with anything truely original or new.

I didn't say the words "truely original"; those are your words. Ideas can involve variations and iterations on existing things.

 

[Umbran]

To quote J Michael Straczynski, author of comics, books, and 92 consecutive scripts for the TV series Babylon 5:

"Ideas are a dime a dozen. Given 10 writers the same basic premise, you'll get back 11 very different stories."

He goes on at length to say that the value of an author, or other artist, is not in "ideas", it is in the execution. It is in turning an idea, old or new, it doesn't matter, into a finished piece people want.

The idea of star-crossed lovers was old when Shakespeare wrote Romeo and Juliet. It was older still when they made West Side Story. Both are still great works, because they are more than just the idea.

As an aside - this is why copyright doesn't protect "ideas", but protects your particular expression of those ideas.

 

[Bagpuss]

To quote J Michael Straczynski, author of comics, books, and 92 consecutive scripts for the TV series Babylon 5:

"Ideas are a dime a dozen. Given 10 writers the same basic premise, you'll get back 11 very different stories."

Yeah that's writers, most GM's don't make it as professional writers.