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On Shanzhai and Art Ownership in the age of AI

Author: Son Nguyen Hoang

Word: 2377

Language: English

Created On: 28 Mar 2025

AI art challenges traditional notions of originality and creativity. As technology reshapes artistic production, a new perspective on art and ownership emerges are required.

Just a few days ago, OpenAI released a new image-generation model. This time the model shook the internet again. Social media and the internet quickly got flooded with meme and images generated from the new AI model. Most of them are classic memes but remade in the style of Ghibi movie or casual photos filtered in the same style. The quality of them is very good. Some might say this is the best image-generation model so far. Although images filtered in Ghibi style now take over the internet, the model has much more capability. It’s not hard to find other versions of real-life photos filtered in South Park style (another famous cartoon series), or simply do image modification job that real-life graphics designer often does: like replace human face, change objects in the photo, etc. … ...

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