AI-Generated Images: Human Creativity and Individual Character under Swiss Law
« Text-to-image » generators – DALL·E, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, or the recent module integrated into GPT-4o – are revolutionizing visual creation at a pace reminiscent of the advent of photography. The same accusations of « mechanical process » once leveled at photographers are now resurfacing against artists using AI (M. Kummer, Das urheberrechtlich schützbare Werk, Bern 1968, p. 207).
Yet, like photography in the 19th century, these tools are already embedded in creative practices where human intervention remains decisive.
