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sophie-baybey · 1 year ago

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I think it's also worth noting that generative AI isn't just "inspired" by content, it uses that content explicitly in the process. You could almost consider it like a very complicated photoshop job on tens of thousands of images, or like using an audio sample when making music. Generative AI isn't a conscious force that that can be inspired by things, it's a tool that is using every single piece of information that is fed into it every single time it's being used. If you generate an image of an apple in an AI generator, sure it has to reference every image that is tagged as an apple, but it also has to take into account every single image in its database that is not an apple, meaning every prompt actively uses every piece of data in some way.

so a huge list of artists that was used to train midjourney’s model got leaked and i’m on it

literally there is no reason to support AI generators, they can’t ethically exist. my art has been used to train every single major one without consent lmfao 🤪

link to the archive

#unfortunately the discussion about the moral standpoint of offloading labor to machines is not helpful in this legal case #because you get into tricky ground of being able to argue that any tool that assists artists is just as bad as AI #the problem isn't AI as a tool #it's the fact that AI will be abused #and the only real way to fight that is to point out the fact that it uses data it shouldnt have access to #AI can't work without an ungodly amount of data #generative AI fundamentally needs to steal work to function #that's our best shot at stopping it right now

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