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This is a terrible ruling (like every ruling). If someone makes art with a computer, it's the person who made the art. It only helps the grifters when judges buy into the illusion of some "AI" making art.
The real problem is surviving as an artist under capitalism. The "solution" of imaginary "IP" has never worked for artists and has only served capital.
When you write a prompt into midjourney or any other image generator, nothing get's "made", simply aggregated from datasets; a pixel from here, a pixel from there. An eye that is eerily similar to this image, a fold of a cloth that is taken almost exactly from a similar painting in it's dataset.
All (or most) of those datasets are taken from the work of actual artists, without attribution or pay because for years we all got suckered in to posting our work online.
Now if you...as an artist...wanted to make a piece of art by cutting out parts of various paintings using something like photoshop, that's a legitimate claim to art. But if you write three sentances into a text box and let the computer do that aggregating for you...you're not an artist.
Even IF we take it to the extreme and say that AI art IS in fact art, you're still not the artist, any more so than I would be if I gave a painter a description of what I wanted and got him to paint it for me. You're the person procuring the piece, nothing more.
Idk about that logic
The dudes stuff is pretty nice. Most people can't make stuff that nice in midjourney. Not necessarily saying it should be copyrightable mind you, but I think there's at least some artistic ability this guy has. Copyright is a clusterfuck as it is so that seems like a moot argument anyways.