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REPORT: When seeing is no longer believing: Inside the Pentagon’s race against deepfake videos

GAN Art Copyright is by FIRST HUMAN to place an original piece in tangible form.

Copyright belongs to person using tool not to the tool!

(At least as far as I know, in Oct, 2020. Disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer) Think of a photographer versus a camera.

Food for thought: If AI art is more aesthetically pleasing than human generated art, why teach humans to art?

These people do not exist. Why websites are churning out fake images of people (and cats) By Rachel Metz, CNN Business Updated 9:21 AM ET, Thu February 28, 2019
"Launched earlier this month by software engineer Phillip Wang as a personal project, the site makes use of a recently-released AI system developed by researchers at computer chip maker Nvidia:Called StyleGAN"
Is that video real? Fake images and videos are everywhere. Here’s how to spot them. By AJ Willingham, CNN Published October 19, 2020

"Giarrusso outlines five different types of misinformation:

Manipulated media: Photoshops, edited “cheapfakes” and some deepfakes.
Fabricated media: Generated media, like fake faces, and some deepfakes.
False context: When a photo, piece of video or even entire event is taken out of content and attached to a different narrative.
Imposter media: When someone pretends to be a reputable news source, or impersonates a news source.
Satire: Misinformation knowingly created for the purpose of entertainment or commentary."

This AI is so good at writing that its creators.By Rachel Metz, CNN Business Updated 5:17 PM ET, Mon February 18, 2019 won't let you use it
"...the researchers said they would not make it publicly available due to "concerns about malicious applications of the technology." Instead, the company released a technical paper and a smaller AI model — essentially a less capable version of the same text generator — that other researchers can use."

LEGALLY SPEAKING: AI Authorship?
"The pragmatic answer to the AI authorship puzzle, as I have argued elsewhere,4 is the user who is responsible for generating the outputs. If anyone needs to be designated as owner of rights in the outputs, it should be the user. That person possesses the outputs, discovered that the potential commercial value of the outputs, and is generally best situated to assess and exploit that value."

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