I think we'll see people who want to post images of themselves in there as well. Like, being a 'playable character' you could prompt for to be in the artwork could be pretty fun.

Why is opt out a thing?

Who told you you could use the data in the first place?

It's copyrighted. Reproducing any of it is a crime.

Reading through your comments, it appears you're under the impression that we (Spawning) trained models using this data. That is not the case. We're building tools to help people to remove themselves from, or add themselves to, datasets used (by others) to train these models. We're hoping to make that as close to 0 effort as possible for all parties. We agree that artists should control how their works are used, and we're working hard to make that the norm.

> It's copyrighted. Reproducing any of it is a crime.

In which case it should be fairly simple to challenge it in court, no?