Can we talk about using AI art for a zine cover?

I needed a cover for a 24-page zine I'm making about local parks. I fed the AI a list of specific park names and a photo of my own sketch, and it gave me something I could actually use. Has anyone else found a way to make AI art feel less random and more like a real tool?

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the_piper1mo ago

What about the copyright on those park names you fed it? I used a similar trick for a project last year and got spooked reading the terms of service. The AI company basically owns the output, but your input list could be seen as creative work too. It's a weird gray area that makes me nervous to use specific text prompts like that now.

the_brian1mo ago

Yeah my buddy ran into something like that... he gave an AI a whole list of made-up band names for a poster design. Later he found the exact list got used in some other project the company did. It's like @the_piper said, they own what comes out but your input can just vanish into their system. Makes you not want to give them anything good, you know? He felt pretty ripped off about it. Now he only uses super generic stuff in prompts.

shanef341mo ago

Honestly the scarier part is they might use your input to train future models. So your cool park names just become more data to make their system better, and you get nothing. It's like feeding ideas into a black hole that spits out cheaper versions of your work later.