AI Generated Album Pages - Curious On Feedback And Thoughts

I am not a fan of AI and am often a critic, but I vehemently disagree with the notion that AI and, by extension, the OP is "stealing or benefitting from other's work" - what a load of horse crap!!

The OP did not imply they intended to take credit for, distribute or profit from these AI generated album pages, they merely asked what people thought about pages made for their own personal use. Any information gleaned from the internet for personal use, whether by exhaustive research or help from AI, is protected by the Fair Use doctrine, provided that information wasn't taken from behind a pay wall or hacked from a secure database. For example: everything ever posted to the this forum is fair game for any individual to use for themselves, according to this doctrine.

Personally, I find it preposterous that people are more concerned with protecting their egos than growing the hobby. But if you don't want people to "benefit from other people's work", then why bother participating in this forum? We'd all be better off if you kept quiet and let your IP die with you!

Brian

That's not even close to a correct statement of the US fair use doctrine, or how it applies here. The four-factor test applies, at it has for decades, and under it, not everyone who copies a work wins. There is also no legislative answer or judicial consensus about whether AI ingesting works for training, or outputting copies of them, is fair use.

Love you Bro.

Thank you very much for sharing your ideas - 1. AI album generation; 2. "left-side" page providing reader friendly explanations for the adjacent "right-side" page exhibiting the stamps; and, 3. hoping to attract new collectors. All three ideas are timely and important.

1. AI hallucinations and garbage research results are behind us. I use multiple AI tools daily for any topic that interests me and no longer suffer from that early craziness. Bespoke stamp album pages - absolutely!

2. Left-Right facing album pages design. Yes! I began doing this when I returned to stamp collecting for exactly the same reason you have. I assume the person viewing my stamp collection knows nothing about stamp collecting (children, grandchildren, friends) and, just maybe, one of them will get interested.
A simple straightforward "design-type" stamp album I built that uses your left-right facing pages concept is here:

https://us-stamps-design-type.onren...-viewer.html

I really thought the ability to own every US Stamp design 1847-1947 for less than $10,000 would be attractive, but so far - ZERO feedback.

3. Hoping (and working) to Attract New Collectors: Well, we can hope! I applaud your efforts to do so. I have gone down most of the rabbit holes one can to attract new collectors. It has been "interesting." My most aggressive attempt to attract new collectors is here:

https://classicstampcollector.com Again - ZERO feedback. I have concluded that I am a horrible Marketeer!

The one idea that has worked was building https://stampplating.com in 2018 and then recently improving it (with some extremely competent friends) to include David Fusichen's PlateAi technology. You can read all about it in the August 2026 USPCS Chronicle.

Now there is some AI stamp stuff for you!

One can absolutely steal and benefit from others' work AND at the same time not intend to take credit for, distribute, or profit from it. Those aren't mutually exclusive concepts.



That's not how that works. And paywalls are completely irrelevant to this matter, too.

Before folks go off using AI to design album pages, perhaps they'd do well to turn to their favorite LLM and give it some simple queries regarding intellectual property and the law?