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Image Use & Citation

If you use an image in your work, you must cite it. This includes papers, presentations, theses/dissertations, publications, blogs, etc. Learn to use and cite images correctly.

AI and Images

 

Starry Bully

Created using DALL-E. 2024.

 

starry night with a cat

Created using Microsoft CoPilot. 2024

It should be noted that no one can claim copyright to something generated through AI.  When using AI Images be ethical about it.  Some AI generators pay artists for their contributions. These guidelines can help you when using AI image generators.

  1. Call it what it is.  Say, "This is art generated by using AI."
  2. If you can give credit to the artists used, do so.
  3. Don't make money using AI Art, most generated images are trained by using other artists' work. 
  4. Use generated AI Images to inspire you - ideation, do not copy the AI image but instead use light, lines, movement, color, characters, landscapes, etc. to create your own image
  5. In practice, you should try to use text-to-image generator that compensate artists used in the creation of the generator.

Are you curious about which artists were used to train AI text-to-image generators?  Search Have I Been Trained?