Selling AI Generated Content/Work

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Do you think it is ethical to sell AI generated content and work? I am asking this question because I am thinking to sell AI generated ebooks and digital art. When you use AI to create content or so something, it is not you who does the work, the tool you are using basically processes available data and use that data to generate content, so basically it is stealing.
 
People are using AI generated content and work to make very big money. I know that AI makes our works to be easier but I will advise to add some of your own ideas before selling them out.
 
Honestly, I don’t think it’s ethical to sell AI-created work because it’s not your own creation. You didn’t make it; the AI did.

To me, it is stealing and unethical. It’s a shame that AI artwork is becoming such a big business.

I’d rather see actual creators get paid for their work, as their creations will always be better than AI-created work.
 
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I don't think that it's unethical to sell AI in ebooks, etc., as it's just a combination of ideas. It's nothing more than what college textbooks are, a collection of proven ideas, but typically with citations. College textbooks get recycled and requoted each edition, and even taken from other sources. A typical reader of a textbook won't care what the citation is, just that they learned what they were supposed to from the book. It doesn't matter where the source came from until you need to write a paper and cite your source.

That said, I think it'd be unethical to create a pen name (an anonymous name you write under) and sell AI content without stating that some information was derived from AI-generated content, but, that the source material was verified to be truthful and accurate.
 
WontByte said:
I don't think that it's unethical to sell AI in ebooks, etc., as it's just a combination of ideas. It's nothing more than what college textbooks are, a collection of proven ideas, but typically with citations. College textbooks get recycled and requoted each edition, and even taken from other sources. A typical reader of a textbook won't care what the citation is, just that they learned what they were supposed to from the book. It doesn't matter where the source came from until you need to write a paper and cite your source.

That said, I think it'd be unethical to create a pen name (an anonymous name you write under) and sell AI content without stating that some information was derived from AI-generated content, but, that the source material was verified to be truthful and accurate.
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Unless the generated contents are cited and also verified to be truthful, that's how AI can be accepted but from that I don't have any reason to accept any AI generated ideas. I love to make use of my creativity too.
 
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Transparency is extremely crucial, but we need to also consider copyright and ownership implications as well . It's important to know if you are the owner or just a curator
 
Alicia said:
Unless the generated contents are cited and also verified to be truthful, that's how AI can be accepted but from that I don't have any reason to accept any AI generated ideas. I love to make use of my creativity too.
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That's why I mentioned not under a pen name. If you use a real identity, you're more likely than not to check your sources, because that means if you're wrong, every book thereafter could be put into question.

There's no need to cite sources in most books.

I like footnotes for books passing as the truth, but, they're not necessary for science fiction that includes things that can be real.
 
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lens said:
Transparency is extremely crucial, but we need to also consider copyright and ownership implications as well . It's important to know if you are the owner or just a curator
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As someone said, some buyers don't care about the involvement of AI while others will question every turns of it. It's important that every buyer check the details of the contents before getting involve with the seller.
 
Alicia said:
As someone said, some buyers don't care about the involvement of AI while others will question every turns of it. It's important that every buyer check the details of the contents before getting involve with the seller.
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Well, I believe in authenticity and I make sure to make my content original. That's not to say I don't use AI, I do but to draw ideas. Nothing more.
 
WontByte said:
That's why I mentioned not under a pen name. If you use a real identity, you're more likely than not to check your sources, because that means if you're wrong, every book thereafter could be put into question.

There's no need to cite sources in most books.

I like footnotes for books passing as the truth, but, they're not necessary for science fiction that includes things that can be real.
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Your points are valid. If one used a real identity, there's no need for citation. And if we start to check everything we read both online and offline, we will understand that every book will be questionable.
 
lens said:
Well, I believe in authenticity and I make sure to make my content original. That's not to say I don't use AI, I do but to draw ideas. Nothing more.
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Everybody is making use of AI because it's more of making use of the construction of the ideas but it's left for you as an original writer to take the ones that suits your ideas than copy them all.
 
Alicia said:
Everybody is making use of AI because it's more of making use of the construction of the ideas but it's left for you as an original writer to take the ones that suits your ideas than copy them all.
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It's better to be creative and not depend entirely on AI. Depending fully on AI kills creativity and that's what I try to avoid.
 
Alicia said:
Everybody is making use of AI because it's more of making use of the construction of the ideas but it's left for you as an original writer to take the ones that suits your ideas than copy them all.
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AI is for lazy people. If you want AI to copy content others can grab, go for it. However, unique content beats copied articles all day.
 
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