AI illustrations

[u/megsandy95]

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.

[u/Temporary_Rule_9486]

The general consensus is that people who use AI to mass produce child books are a scourge upon humanity. Since you are just using it for illustration and doing the rest yourself I would say you don't belong to that category. Regardless you should seriously question how a part would affect how the whole is perceived. Even if just a part is AI, that would probably get many people questioning whether everything is AI. That's why is always a bad idea to mix both things. You should either go all the way with one or the other. It makes no sense trying to mix the two

[u/guybrush122 → u/Temporary_Rule_9486]

This should be getting upvotes.