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Ask HN: Do I need to reference Bing for the images it created?

I am managing social media for a small translation agency as a bureau coordinator and have created some images for social media posts with Bing (which uses DALL-E). Bing tells to mention that images were created with its AI. But I am not participating in any contests with these images, neither am selling them. I just try to differentiate my old-fashioned agency amongst competitors.

Should I mention that images for our social media posts were created with AI?

Generally I wouldn't care to mention or not to mention, but our competitors are not mentioning where did they get their images for their SM posts. Though mentioning this may create some interest.

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Your use of that image may qualify as commercial. Disclosure is up to you, but the same Fair Use clause that protects most AI art will almost certainly not apply to your use case. Whether that makes it legal or not isn't clear yet, and IANAL. I'd err on the safe side and just license a photo from Shutterstock, if you're intending to do this legit.

Bing is software and not human so you don’t need to credit it. You wrote the prompt and clicked the button.

However I think it’s a good practice to say that your images are created using generative AI. You don’t have to mention Bing specifically.

you create nothing with AI, you type in a search query and AI remixes the work of others.

I do not make fish. I put my fishing rod and bait in the river, and I get a fish. But I still say I'm a fisherman.

I can understand your point of view, even though I don’t agree with it.

AI is trained on the body of work of others. i would not want to use anything generated by AI in a commercial work or website without understanding who the copyright holders are of the material the AI was trained on.

>AI is trained on the body of work of others.

Not all AI. AlphaGo for example became superhumanly good at go by playing itself. The only information it got about go from humans is how to tell when a game is over and which player won.

> AI is trained on the body of work of others.

You could also argue that every human is trained off the work of others, both consciously and unconsciously

The ethical thing to do is to credit your image source, IMHO.

But how good is to say "Image generated by Bing AI" (or whatever)? Many of this generated images are a one-off (so, you don't get a URL you can copy). It's like saying "Image found in Google.com".

No it isn't: the latter will still have an author (flesh or machine) that you should identify. The creator of the image, not where/how you happened to find it, is most relevant. All IMHO.

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