Asian Junkie Asian pop. Without discretion.
As you may unfortunately remember, the comeback teasers for girl group Billlie had recently come under fire from fans, netizens, and the creators of French short film Niccolo alike for plagiarism involving AI use. This led Mystic Story executives to respond to the concerns by at first doing apologia for AI and then backtracking to rule out AI use that impacts the quality of their work, whatever that means.
As noted in the update, they also addressed the allegations that the AI their creative team used had inadvertently or not plagiarized from Niccolo. People weren’t happy with that, but it was likely because they thought it might open them up to legal action and/or they didn’t want to scrap the whole concept, but regardless GOBELINS Paris has now said they will explore their legal options.
On one hand, I love Billlie, their music, and their attempt to let creatives loose a bit with their concepts, convoluted names and all. On the other hand, I mean at some point companies have to learn there might be consequences for loosely using generative AI with prompts that sure seem very specific to other works. And quite frankly it does seem like the only thing that might get them to take note is threats of legal action and/or impacting the bottom line, so that’s probably what GOBELINS figures as well.
Most likely it’ll end up being settled privately like most of these things are, but a lawsuit would certainly be interesting and potentially important in terms of precedent, similarly to the three major South Korean broadcasters currently suing Open AI.
