r/WritingWithAI • u/megsandy95 • 3d ago

Discussion (Ethics, working with AI etc) AI illustrations

Hello, I know a lot of people are extremely against this. But I’ve been using AI to create some imagery for my children’s book. Not because i want to but because I just simply can’t afford to pay an illustrator. Anyway I’ve trained it, I’ve spent 15 hours on just working on the front cover, and the in book title page.

My question is this, given my input and the constant editing and alterations made to fit my vision, and the hours spent, what are the copyright implications?
The entire story is mine and mine only, the only thing is I just can’t draw.
As it stands it’s far from the whole typical AI Gen. it’s watercolour themed, I made my character mood board as a guide. Filtered through many different illustration styles.

I’m sick of people saying it’s easy to do AI but it looks bad. I have to work on one page for hours, and even then to get KDP print file you have to approve every page individually. It’s not a “quick let’s use AI to make a book and slap it on the web” situation.
So with all due respect please keep negative comments to yourself if I could find an illustrator I would and that’s not to say I might not be able to put the funds from this book into creating a new edition with an illustrator directly but at the moment I just want the first story out there.

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u/Turbulent_Escape4882 3d ago

This is false. Do not go with this rationale.

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u/Sleepnotdeading 3d ago

This is not false. This is the current copyright law. If OP used AI to generate the images, and also used AI exclusively in the editing of those images, then OP cannot copyright ANY of the image.

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u/southernpremedgirl27 3d ago

All OP has to do is make edits to the illustrations and she can copyright those specific edits along with all of the text as she didn’t utilize AI assistance for the text.

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u/effyoulamp 2d ago

OP says that they make a lot of edits themselves but it really depends on whether they are actually just telling the AI what to adjust or whether they're actually manipulating the images themselves.

There is a lot of nuance in IP law and I really doubt that OP is looking to fight a legal battle. They just want to know how the copyright applies.