A Picture of Bertrand Russell Enhanced by DALL-E
I decided to create some pictures using the DALL-E project. OpenAI places a few restrictions on my use of the images. It is likely that courts will see all pictures based on AI as public domain.
Russell dedicated a great deal of his life to studying the reflexive paradox. I wanted a picture of Russell smoking a pipe and reflecting on an image created by AI.
On 2023-04-21, I grabbed an image of Russell from Wikicommons. Wikicommons says the portrait was drawn from National Portrait Gallery in England. The page says the image was created by "Bassano Ltd" in 1936. NPG says they acquired the image in 1996. Their site says they releases the photograph with a creative commons license. The copyright for a photo taken in 1936 expires in
I created the image on DALL-E with the prompt: "make a colorful abstract image of bertrand russell holding a pipe." I used the GIMP photo editor to mask out the background on the right side of the photo leaving me with a picture of Bertrand Russell and an AI enhanced view of his image.
OpenAI uses images from multiple sources. These sources claimed to using the Creative Commons License. Copyright problems. Copyright issues might ensue if some of the sources were mislabeled.
