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jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:
i try and stay on this side of 'doing slop as performance art' vs 'actually just doing slop,' so to avoid it looking like that, i am just going to leave more context here under cw even though i just came here for the SEO and the bit is underdeveloped from where it might actually be good once i get some SEO):
the response from "university libraries" includes a claim:
While we did start the process of creating a mascot with the art and design students, for a variety of reasons including time constraints, scale, remuneration and copyright issues, we had to pivot with this particular project. In fact, this project has gotten so big that Larry has his own family tree and backstory, all created by real people.
which is funny because using the AI illustration has just way bigger copyright problems, and the scale for a cartoon otter presumably got out of hand because of the AI. and then further citing how the cartoon otter has too much lore is especially funny to me. anyway so just riffing on how people haven't digested the "ai output is not eligible for copyright" thing when doing things like "creating a mascot" that you would typically just assume copyright for because that's how it otherwise works.