Bing's AI image generator allows artists to 'limit' its access to their art, but not outright block it
Microsoft Bing has brought us its own Dall E based AI image generator, but there doesn't appear to be much protection for artists against copyright infringement, other than the company promising to limit access to artists' work, should they send in a complaint.
I spotted the Bing Image Creator already being advertised in my Windows 11 search bar this morning, and I have a strange feeling it's targeting my recently revived obsession with dinosaurs. It knows I've been playing Jurassic World Evolution 2(opens in new tab), anyway, and has been encouraging me to generate «unique dinosaur images», hence the header image—did you know T-Rex may have had lips(opens in new tab)?
But wait a second, that wording is a bit odd. Unique dinosaur images… What, as opposed to non-unique dinosaur images? Because of course, a non-unique dinosaur image would just be someone else's dinosaur image.
A plagiarised image, then.
In the Bing Image Creator FAQ(opens in new tab), it goes into detail as to how Microsoft is «addressing responsible AI», but its artist protection statement feels almost like an afterthought. There's just a single sentence dedicated to Microsoft's handling of plagiarism:
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«We will allow living artists to report(opens in new tab) their name to us for limiting the creation of images associated with their names.»
It does not go into detail about where the reference images are being sourced, though the assumption is that it's scraping from Bing image
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