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Re:Christie’s sells its first AI portrait for $432k by nl on Thursday October 25, 2018 @09:14PM (#18306019)
I think the "taken advantage of" thing is more about the crappy way they behaved on the Github issues ("really disappointing") etc than the idea of using his code.
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Re:Christie’s sells its first AI portrait for $432k by sitkack on Thursday October 25, 2018 @10:00PM (#18306185)
Of the whole thing, this is what struck me as distasteful. Manipulative and degrading.

The French kids owe the Stanford kid like half to all of it.

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Re:Christie’s sells its first AI portrait for $432k by dgut on Thursday October 25, 2018 @10:29PM (#18306323)
The French "kids" are 25y afaik.
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Re:Christie’s sells its first AI portrait for $432k by tedeh on Friday October 26, 2018 @02:24AM (#18307168)
Average peoples sense of entitlement when it comes to exploiting others freely given work probably comes as no surprise to anyone who has ever put anything open source up on Github or anywhere else.
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