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This could be super cool for logos. I've tried using Stable Diffusion to generate logos and it does pretty good at helping brainstorm, but the text is always gibberish so you can use its idea, but you have to add your own text which basically means creating a logo from scratch using its designs as inspiration.

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Well, surely you don't expect to just take the generated stuff and use it right away? For logos you usually need something that some entity can hold the claim on, so you probably need a human touch in any case.

MidJourney's v5 model did a great job producing our logo https://summer.ai/static/nearby/android-chrome-192x192.png

Admittedly it was one of several hundred I had it spit out for me. But the design was completely original and caught me by surprise.

I tried making modifications but everyone kept telling me they prefer the original exactly as MidJourney made it!

Authorship is not a requirement for trademark, though having copyright as well is nice.

You can't use this to make logos for any commercial product, and it's not safe to use it for hobby projects either, based on the current model license.

> You can't use this to make logos for any commercial product

Yeah good luck figuring out that a particular logo was generated with this particular model. And if someone does good luck doing anything about it.

With this amount of fear one wouldn't dare to cross a road without three layers of bubble wrap, plus written authorisation from a lawyer plus a feasibility study from a traffic engineer.

You've never gone through an acquisition or due diligence, have you?

Clearly.

Explain it to me what will happen with the generated logo at an acquisition or due diligence.

You'll be asked to produce documents verifying your ownership and/or compliance with any licenses for all intellectual property. That includes code and graphics (logos).

Sure. And what documents and paperwork do you expect if I the owner of the company drawn the logo myself with a bit of a crayon/inkscape/gimp/blender? Those exact documents will be produced.

I would expect a lawsuit if you gave them to investors, and jailtime if it was part of an IPO. Keep draggin down that bar in tech, I guess.

You also cannot just ingest people's media to train a for-profit AI image generation service, and well, here we are.

PS: not an AI apologist, just pointing the irony. Feels like those fan sonic characters "original content do not steal".

Yes you can. This is nonsense.

https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/urhg/__44b.html

Try controlNet with stable diffusion, I’ve been having good results for text.

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