AI Art, Creativity & Copyright with Kris Kashtanova

Kris Kashtanova is an AI artist who published the world's first copyrighted AI-assisted comic book. Her journey with the US Copyright Office has been documented in the news. I spoke to her about her work as an artist and photographer, what she learned about copyrighting AI art, the safe community she is building—and some of her newer work around ControlNet and training her own models. You can watch our conversation below:

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Show Notes

A few pages from Zarya of the Dawn, which you can download here:

This is the letter Kris received from the Copyright Office outlining the parts they deem to be copyrighted:

More recently, Kris has submitted a new work, Rose Enigma, to the Copyright Office that she believes can be copyrighted. Her lawyers drafted this letter in support of her new work: