@authorbrandonsanderson: TikTok, I’m back with another video on AI and art. This time, I’m suggesting we take a look at the monkey selfie copyright dispute.
because its Brandon, you know im looking in the background for "Easter eggs"
2025-10-03 21:46:17
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trinidairy :
you think he put his hand in his pocket because hes secretly writing a book in there
2025-10-03 21:55:38
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d.chiu :
AI can't create art, but the people behind the tech can violate someone else's copyright
2025-10-03 22:09:28
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Laura :
I agree, 100%. AI is not as sentient being, and therefore it cannot own anything or have a right to anything. It can’t even really create anything. It can only use programming to re-create what is already out there in a different way.
2025-10-03 22:02:53
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Sweet Kenneth :
I agree with 99% of this. However, non human animals can make art, unless you just define art as human made.
2025-10-04 00:11:07
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Carverofchoice :
The settled law of this case actually indicates the exact opposite here. It is used to demonstrate AI art is copyrightable because a human gave the AI instructions and the AI is a tool that executes your will, making it copyrightable work vs nature doing something not under your control. AI will be considered the same as the camera equipment or a phone/app and is just a tool. Additionally, the case doesn't settle the definition of ART, just what is copyrightable and owned by another human. It settles what a copyright is. not what art is.
2025-10-03 22:53:17
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A Giant Unicorn 🦄 :
I am DYING at your pronunciation of macaque. 😩😭
2025-10-03 23:14:01
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Randall House :
you're absolutely correct Mr Sanderson. machine merely copies what is seen from human artists.
2025-10-03 21:47:53
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Smitty1423 :
I hear you but also want to say that jacket is 🔥🔥
2025-10-03 21:52:09
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Brian Jones :
it's interesting to me that when talking about the photo you said "it was determined that a non human entity could not create copyrightable art" and you follow that up with the question "can AI create art?" those are two different questions, and the case has no bearing on one of them. nobody questioned if the monkey can create *art*, only the question of copyright. most people agreed it WAS art, until they realized they needed to move the goalposts to exclude AI. No, AI cannot create copyrightable art, just like a monkey cannot. But, AI CAN create art, just like monkeys can, and just like a vast number of nonhuman can. assuming art is solely the purvue of humans is the height of egotism.
2025-10-04 03:55:12
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SilentHxH :
Interesting so if a human pushes the button is it art? Is all photography not art since the photographer is not creating the art.
2025-10-03 23:51:35
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Ben C :
AI can only steal, or repurpose if you must, it cannot create.
2025-10-03 22:13:53
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Dragonsteel Books :
Class is in session! ✍
2025-10-03 21:46:02
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Mitch :
I think I saw the real Brandon Sanderson in the background writing the next book
2025-10-04 00:10:24
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Daddle :
Why does this feel like a continuation of Hoid's monologue on art in Oathbringer and now he's finally addressing whether or not AI creations are "art?"
2025-10-04 03:06:53
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Ammon (adhd_Projects) :
If anyone wants a good book on this, go read Yumi and the Nightmare painter.
2025-10-03 22:30:23
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Jay Wagg :
Is Adolin Kholin your stylist?
2025-10-04 15:45:28
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Cosmere_mo :
PREACH 🙌🏻
2025-10-03 21:45:35
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LightAxeRob :
Ok but does that mean the singers cannot create art? 🙃
2025-10-03 22:00:11
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joseph.g.hall :
Was that Wayne Terrisborn showing the ladies something on a computer in the background? Are we getting Easter eggs in TikTok’s now? Where is Hoid??!?!? Haha
2025-10-03 22:11:57
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Covet :
Yeah I dont agree I think art is just something that evokes a thought or emotion so everything is art as long as it is perceived
2025-10-04 21:17:16
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MrUks :
not fully correct:
1. animals can make art. Exhibit 1: humans. Exhibit 2: a toddler Exhibit 3: dogs and elephants have been shown to make art when they learn how to draw Exhibit 4: the makaak
2. An ai could make art of that's its intent
3. LLM and other generators don't have intent, therefore they can't make art as there is no decision to express themselves as they can't do that by design
4. currently no ai on earth can make art intentionally cause no ai has intent in any sense of the word
5. the most important: LLMs aren't AI, they're the algorithm an AI spits out as a model for what the ai calculated would be the best method to generate a response based on the training data. An LLM is to AI as the formula f(X) = 2x + 3 to a human.
Thank you for listening to my ted talk
2025-10-04 10:22:17
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Ranen :
What about the elephants that paint? They arnt human…or maybe….
2025-10-03 22:03:18
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sam314 :
human push button on camera= art
human push button on ai ≠ art
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2025-10-04 13:09:13
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realstalecoffee :
You’re saying without humans there would be no art in the world, because it’s man made lens? That is not the world I want to live in.
2025-10-04 05:43:27
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