Dutch far-right party pays damages to court artist after changing image with AI | Netherlands
A Dutch court artist has received damages after a member of parliament from the far-right Freedom Party (PVV) used one of his drawings without permission and manipulated the subjects with artificial intelligence to appear more threatening.
Petra Urban, who has been a court artist for 19 years, was shocked when she saw the painting of two Syrian brothers she painted last year. in prison The allegations about their sister’s murder were reworked and used by the party’s Noord-Brabant region in a video on Instagram and Facebook.
“There are three things that upset me,” he said. “First, my work was used without my permission. Second, this was done for a political party when I wanted to work as impartially and independently as possible. Third – and this makes it really strange – the distortion was done by artificial intelligence.”
Under Dutch law, creators are not only protected by copyright, but also moral rights to object to distortions of their work that could damage their reputation. There was a big shock in May when Urban shared the footage with court reporters and the case went viral. news in the press.
Urban, PVV MP after his union filed a legal demand for licensing rights and compensation Maikel Nimet He called her to apologize and has now paid undisclosed damages.
Because the MP was previously accused of using A.I. felt he could manipulate the images for campaign purposes”no mercy“I hope it is clear that this is a worrying development and we need to remain vigilant,” he said. “You need to be able to assume that journalistic work has been written, drawn, photographed or filmed as objectively as possible. If this is manipulated, the floodgates will open. There’s no telling where it will end up.”
He also distanced himself from the far-right party led by Geert Wilders. “To be honest, PVV is very far from my political views, but even if it were closer to my own politics, I wouldn’t want it,” he said. “It jeopardizes my impartiality.”
Boon and PVV have been approached for comment. The MP publicly accepted responsibility and said: De Telegraaf He thought that a modified image would no longer be subject to copyright, but that this was “a very stupid move”. The movie about a new asylum center has been removed from the internet.
