Opponents of fair use are working to shut down AI-created art through legal and legislative action.
We’re fighting back.

Generative AI is unleashing new waves of creativity
including new forms of written, visual, and audio expression.

Generate & Create

is a new campaign to encourage and promote this open canvas of AI-driven creativity.  We are working to highlight how AI is expanding access to creativity, empowering artists, and bringing more competition to creative industries.  And we work to protect established fair use protections for AI training and output - in the courts and in legislatures around the country.

AI Enhances Creativity

AI bypasses bottlenecks

ARTISTS FOR AI

The Laughing Room

Artists may use Interactive Installations which allows the spectator to get involved in the art, whether by video, audio, etc. For example, The Laughing Room at Arts at MIT is an artificially intelligent and interactive art installation room that plays a laugh track whenever a participant says something that the room’s algorithm deems is funny.

Artificial Imagination

Artists may use Generative AI for Visual Art. Generative AI lets the user use machine learning models to predict the next word or image based on words previously input by a human. Art creation has been possible by platforms, like Midjourney, and AI models like DALL-E.

Beautiful Music Together

Artists may use Generative AI for Music. In a WIRED article, artists discuss shifting the human v. machine perspective to a collaboration approach with machines. For example, an artist David Dolan, performed playing a piano into a microphone while a computer system “listened” for data on pitch, rhythm, and timbre and then was able to improvise with its own accompaniment. This performance of human and AI is available– Youtube Video

EDGE

The Editable Dance GEneration (“EDGE”) is a generative AI model developed by Stanford University that can choreograph human dance animation to match any piece of music. This tool could help choreographers design sequences and communicate their ideas to the live dancers by visualizing 3D dance sequences. For example, an animator could design a specific movement (e.g., move a leg) and EDGE could auto-complete the movements of the rest of the body.

Within

Chris Milk is an American immersive artist and filmmaker. He is currently working on virtual reality storytelling, which can be viewed on the app/site, Within.

AI Outputs are Non-Infringing
“AI art shares significant similarities with pop art, neo-pop art, and collage art in terms of its conceptual framework and aesthetic approach. Just like pop art, AI art challenges traditional notions of art and recontextualizes familiar imagery from popular culture.”
Pat Tremblay
Individual Artist
Rightsholders Are Protected Under Current Law
“U.S. copyright law is robust and has reacted appropriately to many changes in technology. For the most part, no changes are needed. The current law is the result of a careful balance between creators’ interests and the public interest. That balance must be maintained.”
Van Lindberg
Published Author
Access to Training Data
“The referencing of known things, copyrighted and otherwise, is the beginning of the creative process within an artist’s mind. No one has ever suggested to me that this process is a breach of copyright, only that the result cannot resemble the inspiration in a dramatic way”
Mark Duncan
Video Game Designer
Protection for AI Generated Works
Even though my book was painstakingly built sentence by sentence and paragraph by paragraph, the narrative in the media is that it’s AI trash preventing the works of legitimate authors from being discovered on Amazon. I challenge anyone who takes the time to read my book to allege it’s true. My plight and my journey through life resonate in the pages. The plot and characters are not something an AI tool dreamed up. They’re pieces of me.
Elisa Shupe
Published Author & Disabled Veteran

ARTY FISH

We didn’t hire a professional designer or need to learn Adobe Illustrator to create our campaign mascot, Arty Fish.  We created Arty through Midjourney, an AI tool to expand creativity.  With AI, anyone can instantly create custom designs.

OUR SONG

We used an AI song creation service called Suno to create a song for Generate and Create.

Infinite Imagination
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PRINCIPLES

  1. Generative AI is generally subject to fair use protections under existing copyright law - including utilizing publicly available information to train AI models and creating transformative works using generative AI services.
  2. Generative AI is a net positive for creativity and creative output, giving artists new tools for inspired remixing.
  3. Registering works created with meaningful human involvement will promote the creative process, but extending copyright protection to styles or ideas would stifle it.
  4. Generative AI lowers barriers for producing art. Access to AI tools that generate art shouldn’t be limited to major studios and labels.
  5. All art has responded to what’s come before. Generative AI applies computing to what humans have done for centuries.

OUR WORK

We work to promote AI-driven creativity and combat lawsuits and legislation that threatens creative expression.

TEAM

Generate & Create is a project of Chamber of Progress, a center-left tech industry association.

CREATIVITY & COPYRIGHT POLICY
Adam Eisgrau
Senior Director of AI
Coalitions
Kirsten D’Souza
Coalitions Director
State & Local Policy Advocacy
Todd O’Boyle
Senior Director
Mobilization
Mark Jenssen
Director
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