FloppyDoggy
Sage
That doesn’t remove the fact that the AI can still use images made by other people without consent. If you are using millions of images to “train” the AI, who is to say that the model doesn’t use illustrations that “look akin” to the work you’re trying to produce?
Art styles are not copyrighted. However, many people have said that it is unethical for people to use their artworks in the AI database. The issue is that Stable Diffusion does not remove artists’ works when training the AI - that’s the ethical problem.
Your 6th point doesn’t disprove that the AI uses artwork from people who does not want it used in that manner.
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"Stable Diffusion is based on the open-source LAION-5B data set, which is built by scraping images from the internet, including copyrighted works of artists"
"But, while the tech behind Stable Diffusion looks promising, the underlying ethics are completely off. “AI generators are trained on human art and human creations"
"al. Researchers have found that image-generation AI tools such as the popular Stable Diffusion model memorize training images—typically made by real artists and scraped for free from the web—and can spit them out as nearly-identical copies"
"Stable Diffusion can copy artists like Rutkowski by training on their work, examining images and looking for patterns."
"Mostaque did confirm, though that Stability AI has not removed artists’ images from the training data (as many users have speculated)."
"According to a preprint paper posted to arXiv on Monday, researchers extracted over a thousand training examples from the models, which included everything from photographs from individual people, to film stills and copyrighted press photos, to trademarked company logos, and found that the AI regurgitated many of them nearly exactly."
"When so-called image diffusion models—a category that includes Stable Diffusion, OpenAI's DALL-E 2, and Google's Imagen—are fed different images as training data, the idea is that they are able to add noise to images, learn to remove the noise, and after that, produce original images using that learning process based on a prompt by a human user. Such models have been the focus of outrage because they are trained on work from real artists (typically, without compensation or consent), with allusions to their provenance emerging in the form of repeating art styles or mangled artist signatures...The researchers also found that many of the images used in the training dataset were copyrighted images that were used without permission."
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