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Mr O announces that he's been using his time away from work to develop a new user interface for AI models. Mr O decided to keep the name of the his user interface simple, to the point and incorporating his name. After hours of research, he landed on it being knows as the “AI-UI-O”.

In other news, Old MacDonald sues Mr O for copyright infringement claiming that he used his catch-phrase of E-I-E-I-O as the basis for the name of his new model.

Now, while you may think this to be tongue in cheek, which it clearly is, it does have a lot of connection to what's going on in the AI world, particularly the design or text-to-image AIs used to generate pictures based on text. Exactly the thing I used for the hero page and can be seen on the AI Art images. There are groups or artists suing these models as they are creating images based on their work. Interestingly, I watched something (YouTube maybe) on the claims that Aston Martin has copied the Red Bull. While it's clear they have taken some of the Red Bull designs, they clearly have taken a lot of inspiration from Red Bull. Now there are rules against copying, like scanning competitors cars to get exact specifications, but there's nothing against looking at something and using that as a guide. As the narrator said, otherwise, every team would be in breach of copying the inventor of the wheel. (Although the way this week's vote is going, I'm not sure Mr O's pick to win would be hindered by square wheels).

I'll let the courts decide what is and isn't fair game when it comes to training AI models, but it was very notable that Adobe have gone out of their way to point out that the data (images) that their Firefly product have been trained have been approved for that use. In other words, they either own the copyright or have permission to use the image base that their AI is trained on. What this ultimately means is that the text-to-image AI models are here to stay whether the artists like it or not and regardless of whether anyone deems there to have been a copyright infringement or not. It's a bit like traditional photographers complaining about digital photography claiming that they're missing the art of capturing the perfect image because so much can be done with pre and post processing in the digital world. While I agree, digital photography is here, so the new standard is photos that have been pre and post processed .... get onboard!