There is this group on Facebook where people can share AI art and the prompts that generated the art. I'm not part of the group, but I get ads for it and content shows up in my newsfeed. There was one prompt and a group of images that inspired me to write a story about the images, specifically the slogan that they used in the prompt to be part of all of the images. If I were to use that slogan in my story, would it be stealing?
I have no legal knowledge, however, if you intend to publish the story and have doubt over potential plagiarism by using the slogan, then give the citation in the appendix.
You might try rewording it. Usually slogans are ideas that have been around in various forms forever, and have been reworded many times and attributed to many people. Nobody holds a copyright to an idea, only to a particular wording of it (if they can even copyright that).
That's an interesting ethical question. In a strange coincidence, I was telling someone today that I have difficulties in coming up with story ideas, but that I can almost always come up with a decent story if I have to write to a prompt. They said, well, why not ask generative AI what you should write about? My immediate reaction was, no way. That's fake, fraudulent, etc. After thinking on it some more, it came down to two things - one is, I don't ever want to be questioned about ever using generative AI re: my writing and not be able to say, no, never, of course not. Not in any form, outside of MS Word's spell checker. The second is about intent. If I consciously engaged generative AI to aid my writing, I consider that unethical (based on just my own values). BUT - in your case, if you're just scrolling through some AI-generated meme images or whatever, you're just being inspired by it like any other external stimuli. You didn't initiate its creation. That's fine.
Yeah, I saw an album of like 6 similar images and then read the caption of the album which said "I asked the generater to create....[insert description].... and these were the results!" but the images themselves were more inspiring than the prompt. I took a Sci-Fi/horror interpretation of the images . the creator, though specified that each image should have a particular saying/slogan incorporated into each image too. its a tough one... do the images and that slogan belong to the person who created the images (using the prompt to generate said images)? With advice from you fine writer peoples, I was able to find a solution
